Accounts Quotes
1374 Accounts quotes by 1042 unique authors
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
— Barack Obama
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I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith…
— Unknown Author
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Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money…
— Jay Leno
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There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your…
— Eddy Merckx
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No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but…
— John Dewey
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We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled…
— Ronald Coase
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting…
— Eliza Acton
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest…
— Michael Myers
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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any…
— Potter Stewart
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the…
— Walter Lippmann
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There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;…
— Matthew Henry
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Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and…
— Charles Dickens
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When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you…
— Alanis Obomsawin
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The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources.…
— Unknown Author
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
— Mark Twain
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It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.…
— Thomas Berry
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... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who…
— Eckhart Tolle
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath…
— Aristotle
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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