Accounts Quotes
1374 quotes by 1074 authors
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will…
— Isaac Asimov
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages,…
— J. G. Ballard
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who…
— Douglas Adams
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you…
— Saint Basil
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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
— Joseph Addison
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
— Max Beerbohm
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we…
— Saul Bellow
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own;…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert…
— Benazir Bhutto
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of…
— Joe Biden
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
— William Blake
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There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
— Michael Bloomberg
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash…
— James Buchan
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