A Quotes
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“Accounts from Europe indicate that the danse macabre took another form, inspired by the Black Death, rather like our children's rhyme 'Ring o' Ring o' Roses', which refers to the Great Plague. In 1374, a fanatical sect of dancers appeared in the Rhine, convinced that they could put an end to the epidemic by dancing for days and allowing other people to trample on their bodies. It is not recorded whether they recovered but, incredibly, they began to raise money from bystanders. By the time they reached Cologne they were 500 strong, dancing like demons, half-naked with flowers in their hair. Regarded as a menace by the authorities, these dancers macabre were threatened with excommunication.”
Source: Necropolis: London and Its Dead
“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”
Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.”
“Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.”
Source: Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
“Accumulate reserves of inspiration at the fair value of unforeseen contingencies, for life is unfair.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!”
“Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.”
“Accumulating injuries are the price we pay for the thrill of not having sat around on our asses.”
“Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.”
Source: Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith
“Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.”
“Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.”
Source: A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/conservative, Mystical/poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian
“Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.”
“Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.”
“Accuracy builds credibility.”
“Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!”
Source: Black Boomerang: An Autobiography
“Accuracy is essential to beauty.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Accuracy is not the measure of a true prophet. You will know the true prophets by their fruit.”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam
“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.”
“Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.”
“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Accuracy of economics can be improved if economists consider the contribution of corruption to inflation.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Accuracy of prophecy is a legacy of supremacy that set the Bible above all others.”
“Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.”
Source: The Illuminati Papers
“Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”
“Accuracy (truth that you can test) is a non-issue. Genuineness (truth that resonates within you) matters far more. Empath talent reveals the deepest truth you can hold.”
Source: The Empowered Empath: Owning, Embracing, and Managing Your Special Gifts
“Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.”
“Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.”
Source: The Philosophical Works of David Hume: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Pub. by the Author
“Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.”
“Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.”
“Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently”
Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.”
Source: Policraticus: the statesman's book
“Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.”
“Accurately perceiving and following one’s intuition is, I think, the essential human spiritual process. The distractions, confusion, misinterpretations and temptations that oppose that process are enormous. At the same time, there are always clues for how to go about it. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything; that’s the only way beyond the habits, presumptions and prejudices that feed ignorance and fear. To question well, instead of hiding behind a belief or answer, requires the application of the most valued of all human qualities, such as compassion, courage, imagination, respect, humility, devotion, and ultimately love of life itself.
This kind of passionate questing is evident in the most admired and, if you will, divine individuals in every culture, religion, and skill throughout history.”
“Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments.”
“Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!”
Source: The Iron King
“Accursed be he who plays with the devil.”
“Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!”
“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed— I think they would be better dead.”
“Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.”
Source: John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1
“Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!”
Source: Inkspell
“Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.”