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the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

Abigail McCarthy

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Abigail McCarthy
American - Writer
April 16, 1915 - February 1, 2001

Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend – it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

John Dos Passos

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

Virgil Goode

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

Elliot Richardson

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Montesquieu

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

H. L. Mencken

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Arthur Gordon Webster

Many things about our salvation are beyond our comprehension, but not beyond our trust.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

Kay Redfield Jamison

The kind of attention I get is way beyond my comprehension.

Mohit Raina

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know that God is using me in ways beyond my comprehension.

Thea Bowman

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Brooks Robinson

I'm an average citizen and always have been.

Sandy Adams

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