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— Kirby Page"Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war."
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Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
— Lucio Russo
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