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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucker born every minute. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause. ↗

— Harry Vardon

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How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf. ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

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Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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