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“But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.”

May Long Country Term Decision Months Commitment Regard Trade Our Country Long Term Assistance Short Term

Author:Fred Thompson

“The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.”

May Church Regard Celibacy

Author:William P. Leahy

“Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.”

Men Humans May Art Action Grace Honor Future Quiet Gains Tests Sight Regard Makers Attributes Majesty Magnificence Human Actions

Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.”

May Died Regard Bless God Bless

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.”

Way May Long Art Life Is Pay Attention Struggle Gone Willing Honor Long Time Paid Regard Notes Rewards Privilege Creator Sensible Citing Art Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.”

Way May Two Facts Simple News Highest Consequence Ideals Regard Decades Statements Journalism Evening Reports Controversy Anchorman

Author:Walter Cronkite

“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Thinking Feels Mind May Suffering Pieces Shapes Regard Dare Active Block Flames Iron Feds Statues Marble Rubbish Hammered Anvils

Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

“Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that they may always be superseded, and that they may possibly be deduced from probability estimates. Yet denying causality would be the same as attempting to persuade the theorist to give up his search; and that such an attempt cannot be backed by anything like a proof.”

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.”

Wells May Individual Wish Interest Effort Design Particular Regard Independence Sincere Venture Behalf Collectivism Individual Freedom

Author:William E. Gladstone