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Truth isnâ€™t in accounts but in account-books. — Josephine Tey
They cannot degrade Frederick Douglass. The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on… — Frederick Douglass
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a… — Charlaine Harris
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes,… — Sergei Eisenstein
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile… — Walter Pater
The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful… — Benedict of Nursia
Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite… — Christine de Pizan
In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have… — Joe Nichols
There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the… — Kwame Nkrumah
All of this is on account we want to register [sic], to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now,… — Fannie Lou Hamer
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man,… — Max Stirner
Let us not live a life â€¦ that would bring regret. â€¦ It is not going to matter very much how much money you made,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just… — John Henry Newman
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still… — Brassai
The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this… — June Jordan
Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to… — Georg Cantor
I am on an expense account that would blow your mind. — Neal Stephenson
I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist.… — Mavis Gallant
Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States. — Nathan Deal

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