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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of… — Hannah Arendt
At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to… — Natalia Yurchenko
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled… — George Whitefield
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become… — Wendell Berry
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing… — David Attenborough
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche
More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. . .I am convinced that these… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou… — Walter Raleigh
Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and… — Pericles
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your… — Charles Lamb
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
A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. — John Winthrop
There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws — Charles Brockden Brown
The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off. — Walker Percy
What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you canâ€™t operate an entire conventional system, whether itâ€™s… — Prince Charles

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