"Our inventions won't be pretty toys, or show……" — Henry Thoreau
"Our inventions won't be pretty toys, or show up in movies, which distract our attention from serious things, they are but improved but means to an unimproved end."
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- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious… — Chester A. Arthur
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of… — Saint Augustine
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing… — Jane Austen
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- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will… — Abigail Adams
- I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume… — Amy Adams
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own… — James A. Baldwin
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