#dismiss

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#dismiss #envy #how #impossible #know

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#beyond #dismiss #mediocre #minds #own

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#brief #coltrane #completely #considered #country

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#categorize #class #dismiss #each #gender

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#american #american people #barack #barack obama #case

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed

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

— David Dinkins

#brown #courts #dismissed #lawsuits #lee

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#dismissed #evidence #without

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own. ↗

— William Safire

#channeling #dismissed #dummy #having #live