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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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• Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.

  Herman Melville

  Christian, War, Men

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.378

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• If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Country, Moving, Law

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• Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

  John Bunyan

  Children, Would Be, World

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.4077, Delphi Classics

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• The callous use of general warrants and the disregard for the Bill of Rights must end. Forcing us to choose between our rights and our safety is a false choice and we are better than that as a nation and as a people.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, People, Safety

  "Rand Paul promises to derail NSA vote" By Allie Malloy, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2015.

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• One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and its satellites-everywhere that the command economy operated, with its callous disregard for anything but narrow-focused abstract principle-could be forgiven for thinking that the Apocalypse was no longer imminent but in full cry. There's hardly a river, stream, or brook that isn't contaminated with the runoff from human misuse, whether industrial effluents, agricultural pesticides and herbicides, or worse.

  Marq de Villiers

  Thinking, Europe, Rivers

  Marq De Villiers (2001). “Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

  Prince Charles

  Country, Technology, Weather

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• That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Morality, Economics, Moral Values

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.118, A&C Black

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

  Patrick Murray

  Repent, Please, Ifs

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• As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Country, Greatness, Republic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Character, Government

  Simon Bolivar's letter from Jamaica, Summer 1815.

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• It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Book, Law, Would Be

  "Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Browning, 310 U.S. 362". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 20, 1940.

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• More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the unenacted will of our lawmakers. 'If Congress enacted into law something different from what it intended, then it should amend the statute to conform to its intent.' In the meantime, this Court 'has no roving license ... to disregard clear language simply on the view that ... Congress 'must have intended' something broader.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Men, Views

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• One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a letter that just seemed to go on and on. I poured out my whole heart in it, never looking back to see what I'd said because I was afraid cowardice would make me stop. I didn't stop, and when a voice in my head clamored that it would be madness to mail such a letter, that I would be giving her my naked heart to hold in her hand, I ignored it with a child's breathless disregard of the consequences.

  Stephen King

  Love, Dream, Children

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• I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

  Michelle Singletary

  Children, Mean, College

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