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“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.”
David Mamet quotes (American Playwright, b.1947)

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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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“Ever since Follies have pleas'd, Fools have been able to divert”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Isaac Newton quotes (English Mathematician and Physicist, "father of the modern science", 1642-1727)
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“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“Men whom neither merchandise nor selling diverts from the remembrance of Allah and the keeping up of prayer and the giving of poor-rate; they fear a day in which the hearts and eyes shall turn about. (The Light 24.37)”
quran quotes (c. 651 AD)
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“Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science”
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“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking”
Phaedrus quotes (Roman fabulist, 15-50 B.C.)
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“Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.”
Herbert Gold quotes

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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 quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.”
Emile Durkheim quotes (French Sociologist; tudied anomie & social cohesion; wrote "The Division of Labor in Society" 1893, "Suicide" 1897 (also "Le Suicide"), 1858-1917)
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divert synonyms: amuse, amuses, deviate, deviating.

See also: diverted, diverting, diverts.

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