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Letter "D" » disregarded
«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)
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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
«Just for a word - 'neutrality', a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper - Great Britain is going to make war.»
Author: Theobald Theodor Von Bethmann-Hollweg
(Chancellor, Politician)
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Britain, disregarded, Great Britain, scrap, scraps, wartime
«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)
| Keywords:
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«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
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«Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
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«Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| Keywords:
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«A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
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«Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.»
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