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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." "I don't much care where –" "Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
"Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't."
"Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that."
"I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."
"Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing."
"If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves."
"...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved."
"The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid."
"I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again."
"Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death."
"In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die."
"Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself."
"I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there."
"Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor."
"No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself."
"Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."
"Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her."
"Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly . . ."
"Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce."
