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«I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.»
Author: Clara Barton
(Nurse)
| Keywords:
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«I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions»
Author: Dorothy Day
(Founder, Journalist)
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Judgement
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«. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
crime, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, leave behind, suicide
«The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.»
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, duty, imposes, opinion, painting, public, public opinion
«We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .»
Author: William Barclay
| Keywords:
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«Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
boastfulness, bound up, disregard, Fair Play, in other words, minus, minuses, sadistic, shooting, sport, witnessing
«To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogant, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, shameless, utterly
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