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Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset… — Chris Christie
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may. — William Cobbett
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you… — Steven Pinker
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have… — Prince Charles
He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of… — Laozi
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. — Robert Kennedy
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is… — George Wald
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of… — Unknown Author
For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's… — Rocco Buttiglione
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Unknown Author
A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done… — Unknown Author
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of… — Mary Hunter Austin
No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be… — Matthew Henry
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and… — Lewis H. Lapham
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I… — Unknown Author
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Ability is of little account without opportunity. — Lucille Ball
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. — Lionel Trilling
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative. — Jeanette Winterson
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before… — Sun Tzu
We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the… — Sun Tzu
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the… — Carl von Clausewitz

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