Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
“a trial balance is. Basically it’s a worksheet or report that lists all of the accounts in the general ledger, the monthly… — Lita Epstein Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public, — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is ... a sign of the times-though our brothers of physics and chemistry may smile to hear me say so-that biology… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer.… — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
As to the strong likeness between General Hamilton and Dr. Stevens, Mr. Yard could give no account; altho' it seemed apparent that… — Timothy Pickering Copy Share Image
Everything is done by CONTRACT. It DOESN'T matter whether it's Civil or Criminal. There is NO LAW anymore because there is NO… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it:… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole,… — Sergei Shipov Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image