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“A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.”

Important States Stories Action Century Citizens Accounts Dramatic Thoughtful Reins Abusive Ominous

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.”

Giving Should Littles Soul Prayer Accounts Bounds

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”

Ifs Men Firsts Science Common Pieces Accounts Patient Rate Common Sense Plenty Furniture Chamber Quip

Book:THE

Source: THE

“Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.”

Needs Stars Sides Poverty Roles Accounts Fellows Strategy Western International Aids Arguing Debate Tendencies Economist Feedback Ongoing Global Poverty

Author:Amy Lockwood

“The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.”

World Creation This World Accounts God's Presence

Book:The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate

Source: The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate

“People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.”

People Years Daughter Accounts

Author:Michael Birch

“I'll keep reducing my trading size as long as I'm losing My money management techniques are extremely conservative. I never risk anything approaching the total amount of money in my account, let alone my total funds.”

Long Risk Amount Losing Accounts Management Size Conservative Technique Fund Trading Reducing Money Management

Author:Randy McKay

“They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?”

“The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.”

Giving Should Failing Position Fairs Tests Accounts Financial Accurate

Author:Kevin Warsh

“But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.”

People Thinking Country Running Political New York Accounts Towns Population Officials Avenues

Author:Mark Leibovich

“God does not keep an itemized account of all your failures.”

Doe Accounts

Author:Joseph Prince

“People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But we've also heard that it doesn't make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.”

People Whole Use Stuff Heard Identity Products Easier Accounts Make Sense Google Profile

Author:Bradley Horowitz

“For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.”

Source: Tyranny of Words

“General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.”

Littles Opportunity Ability Opposites Accounts

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account.”

Real Play Light House Vision One Day Accounts Glorious Throwing Jewels Cracked Bank Accounts Fixture

Book:This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America

Source: This Damn House!: My Subcontract with America

“Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.”

States Play Roles Taken Information Circumstances Accounts Threat Available Prevention Proceeding Dubious

Author:Angela Merkel

“The role of the opposition leader differs from that of the chancellor. If this government is to be successful, I have to take the emotional state of all partners into account. Besides, the Social Democrats didn't exactly present me with the motto "Let us dare to have more freedom" on a silver platter.”

Ifs States Government Social Leader Roles Successful Emotional Accounts Democrat Dare Partners Being Successful Opposition Silver Motto Silver Platter

Author:Angela Merkel

“If we take into account that women have had the right to vote only for some 100 years - in some countries even less - and that we have already won seats in governments or presidential offices, I understand that men look at this rise with some anxiety.”

Ifs Men Years Looks Country Government Office Anxiety Vote Accounts Presidential Seats Right To Vote Already Won

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.”

Poverty Gone Imagine Tomorrow Accounts Wake Up Unions Credit Waking Bank Accounts Gone Away Credit Unions

Author:Suze Orman

“I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.”

Persons Has Beens Might Humanity Reading Levels Saws Judgment Accounts Scripts Disgusting Shelter Homeless Might Have Been

Author:Paul Bettany

“I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my church every other Saturday, and one day this kid from my school was there. Somewhere between that moment of realization and appreciation for what my Dad sacrificed for us to have, and me becoming "Anthony Mackie" I lost it. This movie [Shelter] really made me realize that, and it was very humbling and very sickening to see that within myself.”

Made Moments Kids School Used Lost Realizing Church Numbers Becoming Dad One Day Accounts My Dad Appreciation Hungry Realization That Moment Shelter Homeless Saturday Humbling

Author:Paul Bettany

“The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."”

People Mind Millions Strange Negative Accounts Luck Impulse Destructive Phenomenon Misfortunes Translate Subconscious Constructive Bad Luck Subconscious Mind Strange Phenomena

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.”

Ifs Men Way Want Firsts Strong Weak Accounts Coward Valiant

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

“It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.”

Doe Bird Accounts Nests

Author:Winston Churchill

“Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.”

Kind Art Religious Accounts Steadfast Earnestness

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.”

Doe President Decision Security Policy Accounts Instruments Agency National Security Council Cia Security Council

Author:Philip Agee

“The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.”

Men Has Beens Done Speak He Man Equal Beats Accounts Meetings Soldier Treatment Officers Speaks Out Hold Me Formality Equal Treatment

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.”

World Way Needs Believe War Ends Government Chance Security Possibility Accounts Lifetime Reasonable Japan Allies End Of The World Menace

Author:Winston Churchill

“What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.”

Ideas Wanted Jobs Revolution Accounts Bills Saving Gates Loan Savings No Friends Savings Accounts

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.”

Men Jobs Father Accounts Bank Accounts Butlers

Author:Amy Chan

“I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.”

People Kind Facts Amount Equal News Losing Accounts Hearing Balanced Good News Bad News

Author:Bill Gates

“You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children”

World Children Beautiful Accounts Cancer Bones Beautiful You Under Stress World Is Beautiful Bone Cancer

Author:Stephen Fry

“For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.”

Needs Years Long Play Term Risk Offers Ten Shots Gains Accounts Investment Long Term Retirement Packs Inflation Best Shot

Author:Suze Orman

“The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.”

Persons Ability Amount Accounts Starting Determined Manage Bank Accounts

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.”

Danger Accounts Tension Electric Consistently Distribution Lighting Unreliability

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'”

Giving Different Teaching Accounts Plato Unwritten

Author:Aristotle

“I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.”

Source: A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story

“Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others; and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.”

Ifs Should Asks Speak Accounts Complaining Frailty

Author:John of the Cross

“That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.”

Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist

“Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Two Ideas Matter Courses Jesus Energy Stuff Accounts Revenge Invention Radical Squares Bad Ideas Insulted Human Thought Radical Ideas

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“There is no such thing as a true account of anything.”

Accounts

Book:Creation: a novel

Source: Creation: a novel

“I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Next Generations Healthy Accounts Shame Catholic Sentiments Next Generation Dose Mockery Derision

Author:Reza Aslan

“How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?”

Ego Accounts Narcissistic Bank Accounts

Author:Billy Porter

“Actually, there was one sequence but Liv didn't put this in but at the end of the movie, we ran out of money. Literally, ran out. And I couldn't make payroll. So I emptied all our accounts to make payroll. We were kinda like, "What do we do?" Then out of the blue, we were saved by Gucci. So it's always been like, you just gotta reach for the stars and hopefully the moon will catch you.”

Ends Stars Like You Moon Accounts Blue Saved Hopefully Ran Sequence Payroll Gucci

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“You know, I did start a Twitter account, but that's the only thing I do. I feel torn because I don't want to promo myself and force that down people's throats, but on the other hand, that's a component. There's some real interest in, "Hey, what are you doing next?"”

People Knows Want Feels Real Hands Next Force Interest Accounts Hey Throat Torn Components

Author:John Cho

“A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.”

Men Doe Accounts Gentleman Rejects Speakers

Author:Confucius

“Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.”

Knows Men Lost Accounts Brilliant Rejection Clients Provoking Avenues Madison Madison Avenue

Author:David Ogilvy

“Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.”

Way Giving Lasts Fiction Accounts Nails Stop Time

Author:Rebecca West

“In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.”

People Way Want Believe Action Order I Believe Clear Environment Our Lives Consequence Accounts Including Misunderstood Our Actions Incumbents Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:Michael Crichton

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