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Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.


John McCarthy


#any #anyone #ayn #ayn rand #concentrating

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.


Mary Wortley Montagu


#despises #diverted #entertain #fellows #i

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.


Phaedrus


#diverted #may #mind #ought #return

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.


J. B. Priestley


#down #drink #i #i see #much

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.


Samuel Richardson


#diverted #jest #least #most #others

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.


Samuel Johnson


#drinking #every #indeed #means #melancholy

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.


Samuel Johnson


#curiosity #diverted #emulation #great #knowledge

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.


Aung San Suu Kyi


#decide #diverted #end #follow #path

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.


Jessica Savitch


#because #diverted #husbands #jealous #other

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.


Robert Shea


#ideals #likely #more #organization #original






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