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«Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.»
Author: James Harvey Robinson
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Politics
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«Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.»
«A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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«That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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«Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Inventions
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«We should meditate upon the lord everyday, especially at the advent of dawn and dusk because the atmosphere is peaceful during that time. There is no noise to distract the mind.Meditation improves faith, devotion and self-confidence. »
«Do not allow doubt to distract you; if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality.»
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