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Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

Apathy Error: Don't bother striking any key.

Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.

Philip Breedveld

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing. -- Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

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

Frank Moore Colby

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Apathy at the individual level translates into insanity at the mass level.

Doug las Hofstadter

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and undernourishment.

Bob Inglis

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' (on a former player)

Frank Layden

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;
Contracted all, retiring to the breast;
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest. -- Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.

Alexander Pope

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.

Eleanor Rooseveldt

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

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