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I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

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But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#attracted #changes #during #planets #sky

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#congress #contracts #donors #members #must

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#difficulty #disposition #education #find #gratify

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. ↗

— Edwin Land

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I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

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I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. ↗

— Tea Leoni

#between #first #first of all #i #kate

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ↗

— Eliphas Levi

#attracts #awkward #because #disorder #intrusive