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When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account. — Haniel Long
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they… — Edmund Burke
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with… — Karl Pearson
The wisest man is he who can account for his actions. — Unknown Author
Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each… — Al-Ghazali
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen
Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at… — Kevin E. Trenberth
Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the… — Richard Lindzen
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I… — John B. S. Haldane
If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not… — Robert Adams
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as… — Wilhelm II
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or… — Paul von Hindenburg
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. — George Bernard Shaw
From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement — Drake
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it… — Flannery O'Connor
Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm… — Pope John Paul II
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the… — Thomas Malthus
I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity… — David Hurn
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag
I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for. — Charis Wilson
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Unknown Author
The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the… — Alistair Begg

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