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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither. ↗

— William Trevor

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The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. ↗

— William Hedgcock Webster

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Humility is attentive patience. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end. ↗

— Benedetto Marcello

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I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? ↗

— Jon Meacham

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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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