"They are surely to be esteemed the bravest……" — Thucydides

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• No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but… — Isaac Asimov
• A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited… — Douglas Adams
• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams
• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all… — Saint Basil
• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. — Max Beerbohm
• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we… — Saul Bellow
• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,… — Pope Benedict XVI
• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the… — Benazir Bhutto
• History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,… — Ambrose Bierce
• Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce
• In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in… — Harry A. Blackmun

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