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Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and… — Owen Gingerich
He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties. — Laozi
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them… — Emile M. Cioran
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You… — Samuel Johnson
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess… — Samuel Johnson
Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find… — John Cheever
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what… — Simone de Beauvoir
... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent. — Billy Graham
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and… — Neil Postman
It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in… — Eugene V. Debs
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun, a monk's confession,… — Mary McCarthy
Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy… — Adam Clarke
Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold… — Warren G. Bennis
A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would hear the one… — Israel Shenker
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence… — Michelle Malkin
Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up… — Grace Napolitano
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty… — Grace Napolitano
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard… — Dave Obey
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it. — Aristotle

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