Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.
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Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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[Bush's critics say his response to the hurricane proves that he's not a leader.] Oblivious, in denial, dangerous, ... blame game.
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2 Peter 1:9:
But if any of you do not have them, you are nearsighted and blind, and you have forgotten that you have been cleansed from your past sins.
(NIV)
For whoever lacks these qualities is blind, [spiritually] shortsighted, seeing only what is near to him, and has become oblivious [to the fact] that he was cleansed from his old sins.
(AMP)
But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
(KJV)
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There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.
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