"Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object."
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"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will."
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"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."
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"It's not how many followers you have, it's how many care. It's not width, it's depth. It's not how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get."
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"A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only."
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"Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words."
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"Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!"
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"Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity."
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"The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention."
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"Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice."
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"To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God."
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"You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians."
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"What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness."
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"The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton."
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"The education of attention would be an education par excellence"
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"I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves."
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"Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind."
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"Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest."
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"Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there."
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"Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored."
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