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• The job has left me with a healthy disregard for what you might call Public Life. I have no desire now to go to receptions, to be seen at gatherings of the great and the good, to stand and be bored to death by men in grey suits.

  Michael Longley

  Jobs, Men, Bored

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• Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

  Patrick Murray

  Repent, Please, Ifs

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• Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

  William Merritt Chase

  Lying, Canvas, Imagine

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• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Pain, Other Cultures

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.

  William Damon

  Attitude, Educational, Priorities

  William Damon (2014). “Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society”, p.3, Hoover Institution Press

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• He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

  Max Muller

  Yellow, Wish, Dresses

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Hate, Struggle, Conformity

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• For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

  Chris Cannon

  Rights, Years, Fundamentals

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• The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Sake, Taste

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• Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact, during the twenty-five years that followed Lyndon Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, U.S. tax payers spent $3 trillion providing every conceivable support for the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. Private foundations spent scores of billions more, and private and religious charities even more. Nevertheless, as Ronald Raegan later quipped, 'in the war on poverty, poverty won.'

  Mona Charen

  Religious, War, Elderly

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels.

  Jewel

  Angel, Ideas, Everyday

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• More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Character, Exercise, Men

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• I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Writing, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4517, Delphi Classics

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• The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.

  Herbert Hoover

  Law, Evil, Worst

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

  Agnes Repplier

  Blessed, Son, America

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• advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

  Freya Stark

  Advertising, Advertisements

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• There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lying, Order, Lines

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.

  Margaret Drabble

  Children, Details, Facts

  The Millstone (1965)

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• And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

  Rachel Field

  Scandal, Way, Catching Up

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Cutting, Fundamentals, Facts

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

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• ... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Christian, Stress, Animal

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• Our existence in this place, this microscopic corner of the cosmos, is fleeting. With utter disregard for our wants and needs, nature plays out its grand acts on scales of space and time that are truly hard to grasp. Perhaps all we can look to for real solace is our endless capacity to ask questions and seek answers about the place we find ourselves in.

  Caleb Scharf

  Real, Play, Space

  Caleb Scharf (2012). “Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos”, p.187, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.

  Wendell Phillips

  Ideas, Numbers, Long

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• Our general attitude toward life and our attitude toward sexuality cannot be separated. We cannot choose where we will build strongly and where we will disregard, for all the threads interweave to make the human pattern.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Sex, Attitude, Patterns

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