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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson

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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

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

— Jessica Savitch

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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

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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. ↗

— Anita Brookner

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

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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

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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

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