#neglect

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#attorney #believe #care #deeply #defendant

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ↗

— George Washington

#army #discipline #gives #hurtful #more

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#arrived #certain #conviction #crucial #discuss

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#america #critique #emigrants #finally #gets

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#concept #consequences #evident #examines #information

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#active #active life #commendation #duties #gives

The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#infrastructure #neglected #president #proposals #water

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education. ↗

— John Conyers

#chosen #costs #education #higher #higher education

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. ↗

— Diogenes

#harp #insensible #itself #like #mouths