#indifferent

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#pain #pleasure #reasons #totally

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake. ↗

— George Ripley

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#drunk #indifferent #make #must #open

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#county #indifferent #people #welfare

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#demonstration #highly #indifferent #law #power

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#hostile #indifferent #merely #neither #nor

And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet. ↗

— John Sayles

#develop #feet #first #get #going

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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