#dismiss

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#although #any #conscience #dismissed #give

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ↗

— William Cowper

#dismiss #god #heart #his #man

But the courts have dismissed the lawsuits against me and Lee Brown. ↗

— David Dinkins

#brown #courts #dismissed #lawsuits #lee

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#bond #dismissed #had #most #often

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

#bunch #complacent #cowards #deadly #dismiss

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill. ↗

— Denis Thatcher

#churchill #conservative #conservative party #country #dismissed

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#dismiss #insults #re-examine #soul #told

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dismissed #evidence #without

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible. ↗

— Anne Rice

#beginning #dismissed #hand #i #in the beginning