#disregard

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. ↗

— Otto Hahn

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Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. ↗

— Michael Medved

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Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

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For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. ↗

— Howard K. Smith

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As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. ↗

— Voltaire

#disregard #ignorance #innovation #persecution #reformers

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. ↗

— Clara Barton

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