Now I will have less distraction.
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Upon losing the use of his right eye; as quoted in In Mathematical Circles (1969) by H. EvesLeonhard Euler
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Writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers, political thinkers, to name only a few of the categories affected, must woo their readers, viewers, listeners, from distraction. To this we must add, for simple realism demands it, that these same writers, painters, etc., are themselves the children of distraction. As such, they are peculiarly qualified to approach the distracted multitudes. They will have experienced the seductions as well as the destructiveness of the forces we have been considering here. This is the destructive element in which we do not need to be summoned to immerse ourselves, for we were born to it.
Saul Bellow
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.
Malcolm Bradbury
We are, by nature, so futile that distraction alone can prevent us from dying altogether.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is important that I leave now to avoid further distraction from the ongoing mission of FEMA.
Michael D. Brown
The majority of Americans — the ones who never elected you — are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction.
Michael Moore
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