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Attention Quote by Rod McKuen

“Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.” quote by Rod McKuen — Download Open image

“Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.”

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It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

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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.

Henry David Thoreau

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