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“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

“Do nothing without regard to the consequences.”

Consequence Regard

Book:Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

“I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the phenomena of life because of certain moral consequences which at first seem to follow from these theories, and still less with those who regard it as irrelevant or impious to ask certain questions at all. By refusing to face the facts , the conservative only weakens his own position.”

“Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.”

Values Social Consequence Regard Pursue Behave Capitalist Exploitation Expansion

Author:David Harvey

“Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.”

Long Happens Earth Turns Term Happened Effects Consequence Regard Species Environmental Long Term Mars Extinction Venus Greenhouses Runaway Knobs

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.”

Matter Character Differences Serious Theory Taste Consequence Importance Regard Fundamentals Mere Confusion Ethical Preference Subjective Temperament

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.”

Ifs War Whole Happens Young Mistake Exercise Consequence Regard Faults Prepared Soldier Unusual Fatigue Embarrassment

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".”

Believe Might Eye Process Progress Plans Impossible Failing Arms Solutions Evidence Consequence Regard Sake Nuclear Negotiation Urgent Nuclear Arms

Author:Mona Charen

“Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.”

“We woke up some years ago about the consequences of ozone depletion, the hole in the atmosphere. You can't see it. You can't taste it. You can't smell it. But now we do regard that as a key issue. It's a scientific finding.”

Years Issues Keys Taste Findings Consequence Years Ago Regard Smell Holes Atmosphere Ozone Ozone Depletion

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.”

Men Doe Law Consequence Regard Cease Be A Man Jurors

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.”

“I am now in that happy comfortable state that I do not hesitate to indulge in any fancy in regard to diet, but watch the consequences, and do not continue any course which adds to weight or bulk and consequent discomfort.”

States Courses Watches Comfortable Consequence Weight Regard Add Diets Fancy Indulge Discomfort Indulge In

Book:Letter on Corpulence

Source: Letter on Corpulence