Account Quotes
1306 quotes by 978 authors
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Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds…
— Marvin Harris
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Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category…
— Jacques Ellul
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There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll…
— Giorgio Armani
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I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac.
— Jean-Francois Cope
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Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched…
— George Bernard Shaw
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. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
— Isaac Newton
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The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe…
— Blaise Pascal
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I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.
— Kin Hubbard
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If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter…
— Daniel Quinn
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The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st…
— Unknown Author
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Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account…
— Unknown Author
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We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to…
— Joseph O'Neill
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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth…
— Isaac Watts
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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers…
— George S. Patton
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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds…
— Unknown Author
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The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or…
— David Hume
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