Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom."
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Neglect
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Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?"
Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness."
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"I cannot neglect prayer for a single day."
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"He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation."
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"Doing is never enough if you neglect Being."
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"Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty."
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"Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another."
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"Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both"
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"If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!"
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"We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation."
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"We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off."
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"The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil."
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"He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has."
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"Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one."
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"The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it."
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"Neglect of appearance becomes men."
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"Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected."
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"If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith."
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"All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties."
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"To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education."
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"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind."
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"Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you."
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