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    If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

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    If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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    If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

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    Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

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    I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

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    I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

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    Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

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    In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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    Indifference creates an artificial peace.

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    Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

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    In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.

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    I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

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    In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

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    Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

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    I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

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    It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

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    It's enthusiasm, not apathy, that makes the world go 'round.

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    I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.

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    It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy

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    It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

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    It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.

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    I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

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    I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.

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    Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

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    Make your "yes" mean yes, and your "no" mean no.

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    Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

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    My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad. If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper - and pessimistic - activism.

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    Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

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    My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

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    No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

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    Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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    Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

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    Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

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    Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze the suppliant; by their fiery zeal they burn the sufferer.

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    Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

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    Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

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    Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political debate and action, if democracy is to survive.

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    Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

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    Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

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    Revival brings back a holy shock to apathy and carelessness.

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    Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

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    Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

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    [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

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    Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

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    That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.

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    Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

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    Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

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    Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

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    The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?

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    That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.