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apathy
«Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
apathy, aroused, carrying, definite, intelligible
«Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand»
Author: Bodie Thoene
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Apathy
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apathy, glove, gloved, gloves, hand and glove, slips
«In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.»
«In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.»
Author: William Bernbach
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Communication,
Language
| Keywords:
apathy, breeds, communications, familiarity
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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Action,
Apathy
| Keywords:
absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is exercise, not rest»