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“Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.”

Men Sometimes Politics Chance Power Failing Events Hair Depends Increase Profit Neglect Great Events

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.”

Turns Parent Poverty Failing Crime Policy Source Revolution Birth Neglect Birth Control

Author:Aristotle

“Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.”

People Ideas Effort Support Path Failing Sacrifice Love You Connections And Love Luck Competition Ill Curse Neglect Inability Bad Luck Ill Will Support And Love

Author:James Altucher

“I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.”

Knows Men Way Shows Might Religious Lord Wife Failing Serious Duty Anxiety Meetings Privilege Various Neglect Pardon Misgivings

Author:T. B. H. Stenhouse

“May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.”

May Grows Silence Grace Failing Neglect Printed

Book:The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”

Trying Failing Military Duty Neglect

Author:Robert Baden-Powell

“If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.”

Ifs Thinking Made Self Problem Form Attention Issues Focus Failing Particular Currents Neglect Scope Self Contained Global Issues

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.”

People Ifs Matter Poor Failing No Matter What Sunday Neglect God's Love Needy Affluent Love No Matter What

Author:Ronald J. Sider