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• It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than any considerable development of intolerance as regards religion.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Community, Church, Would Be

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• I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

  John Perry Barlow

  Criminals, Caves, Wonder

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• The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

  Christopher Lasch

  Common Sense, Community, Progress

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• Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

  Bertrand Russell

  Essence, Feelings, Depth

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.9, Bertrand Russell

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• The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

  David Riesman

  Work, Artist, Class

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

  Carson McCullers

  Hero, Men, Giving

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Long, Doe, May

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

  John Henry Mackay

  Book, People, Prejudice

  John Henry Mackay (2001). “John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings”, p.11, Xlibris Corporation

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• Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

  Patrick Pearse

  Blood, Finals, Slavery

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• It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

  Terry Eagleton

  Evil, Laid Back, Deny

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• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Imperfection, May, Should

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• I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

  Susie Orbach

  Kitchen, Wish, Needs

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• Most parliamentarians don't have a clue as regards the challenges or the opportunities the games industry faces.

  David Puttnam

  Opportunity, Games, Challenges

  "I hope we'll achieve the political legitimacy of the games industry". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2009.

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• The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

  John Woolman

  Wise, Son, Men

  John Woolman (1847). “A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...”, p.84

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• Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.

  Joseph Butler

  People, Remember, Temper

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

  William C. Kirby

  Believe, Understanding, May

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• I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

  Bernard Arnault

  People, France, Residents

  "France's Richest Man Bernard Arnault Sues Liberation Over Headline" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, Ambitious, World

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1853). “The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.255

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• Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

  Ehud Barak

  Real, War, Believe

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• And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

  Jan Brewer

  Responsibility, People, Borders

  "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.

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• The president said nothing about the views of government in regard to the possibility of Carolinas seceding. This however was frequently spoken of by other statesmen at the North. I think they were unanimous in this, that no army would be sent here.

  John Bachman

  Army, Thinking, Government

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• I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!

  Kelly Brook

  Thinking, League, Dames

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• I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Mines

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• Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dad, Son, People

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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