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One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice. — Socrates
An unexamined life is a life of no account. — Socrates
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't… — Socrates
Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent… — Mark Krikorian
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre,… — Unknown Author
I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter… — Mark Feuerstein
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — Unknown Author
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And… — Herodotus
Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our useâ€”that is our good useâ€”of other things,… — Socrates
Hope is different from optimism. Hope is a tough virtue, not a psychological predisposition. Hope insists on taking facts and reason into account and still… — E. J. Dionne
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage… — David Ogilvy
There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account. — John Quincy Adams
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of… — Thomas Paine
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. — Thomas Nagel
The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before… — Thomas Nagel
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or… — John Milton
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought… — Seneca the Younger
The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains,… — William James
There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values â€” is,… — Karl Jaspers

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