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“Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.”

Men May Soul Ends Order Causes Understanding Path Accounts Remains Possession Occupation Stability Submit Repose Depraved Deviate

Book:The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

Source: The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

“I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And again: "A lying mouth deals death to the soul." And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: "On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter."”

Men Said Soul Lying Speak Deals Lord Judgment Mouths Accounts Ignorant Idle Psalms

Author:Saint Patrick

“I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.”

Looks Accounts Vegetarian Beans

Author:Antony Worrall Thompson

“Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.”

World Should Given Teach Tests Accounts Abandoned Given Up

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.”

Ifs Trying Character Law Study Office Accounts Files Formation Abraham Disorganized

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime

“Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.”

Thinking May Persons Reason Political Aspect Accounts Stupidity Icons Palin

Author:Joe Bageant

“Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical.”

Individual Risk Accounts Trade Constant Critical Indifferent Equity

Author:Larry Hite

“I've always been a big proponent of point of view in cinema. Not necessarily that the point of view has to be subjective, but that in all great films the point of view has been taken into account and established.”

Has Beens Bigs Film Views Taken Accounts Point Of View Cinema Subjective Great Film

Author:John Hyams

“Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.”

People Real Together Community Mass Accounts Function

Author:John Zerzan

“I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.”

Shows Felt Cutting Week Tools Accounts Narcissism

Author:Mireille Enos

“I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.”

Ifs Feels Broken Paper Computer Accounts Details Statements Transactions Broken Down

Author:Geoff Capes

“To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy”

Views Enemy Events Perspective Accounts Currents Historian Current Events

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the adversary could put it for himself, and take account not only of what the adversary says, but also the best he MIGHT say, if only he had chanced to think it.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Might Cases Fit Accounts Encounters Adversaries

Author:William Hurrell Mallock

“Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.”

People Difficult Doors Huge Tasks Accounts Officials Branches Bank Accounts

Author:Narendra Modi

“Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.”

Today Accounts Corporate Mail Spam

Author:Bill Gates

“Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.”

Giving Hard Remember Order Prayer Devil Labor Accounts Delight Abandon Distraction Recollection

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“Did you hear about the accountant who became am embezzler? He ran away with the accounts payable!”

Accounts Ran Accountants

Author:Jackie Mason

“Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.”

Real Conditions Photography Accounts Observers Depiction

Book:True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

Source: True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

“Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.”

Book Feelings Criticism Accounts Critics Literary Criticism Impertinence

Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time.”

Careers Training Accounts Wings Selling Buying Makers Pacific Financing Stock Exchange Buying And Selling Selling Stocks

Author:Tim Kang

“An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.”

Art Artist Evidence Accounts Photograph Works Of Art Documentaries Eyewitnesses

Author:Dieter Roth

“Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.”

Knows Needs Change Accounts Divorce Need A Change Bank Accounts

Author:Christopher Titus

“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Suffering Dies Secret Mystery Crime Horror Bed Despair Conscience Essence Accounts Burden Heavy Graves Thrown Old Man Throat Permit Now And Then Alas

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.”

People Ifs Way Giving Mean Pain Lying Language Common Rocks Objects Goes On Accounts Cradle No Pain Proverbial

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.”

Difficult Accounts Thrive Difficult Things Notorious Ineptitude

Author:Carl Jung

“Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.”

Needs May Persons Facts Hands Seems Crime Accounts Victim Revenge Innocent Penalties Hand In Hand Pettiness Vindictiveness Innocent Victims

Book:Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society

Source: Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society

“I am open to [the notion of theistic revelation], but not enthusiastic about potential revelation from God. On the positive side, for example, I am very much impressed with physicist Gerald Schroeder's comments on Genesis 1. That this biblical account might be scientifically accurate raises the possibility that it is revelation.”

Might Sides Example Possibility Accounts Raises Notion Revelations Comment Accurate Biblical Impressed Physicist Enthusiastic Genesis

Author:Antony Flew

“The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.”

Ifs Humans Done Eye Christian Life Is Dies Influence Divine Victory Conflict Accounts Finals Deeds Income Human Life Welfare His Eyes Contribution Midst Behalf Overflow Deeds Done

Author:William Jennings Bryan

“Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.”

Men Wealth Labor Accounts Proportion Acquire

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.”

People Knows Wells Different Seems Mother Found Father Risk Lovers Worship Accounts Forgiving Managers Dictator Knowing God Abusive Worship God Hermits Abusive Father

Author:Richard Rohr

“I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.”

People Needs Trying Believe I Believe Process Understanding Community White Color Accounts Add Historical Privilege Checks Interaction

Author:Bocafloja

“or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.”

People Looks Real Lasts Energy Fit Accounts Video Priests Tape Hysteria Physicality Manic Exorcism

Author:Ashley Bell

“Something wild can happen to anybody and I caution anybody that walks out on the street, just settle your accounts before you leave the house every day.”

Happens House Walks Streets Accounts Settling Caution

Author:Bill Murray

“If a person has done wrong, is conscious of what he has done and does not say sorry, I ask God to take him into account. I forgive him, but he does not receive that forgiveness, he is closed to forgiveness. We must forgive, because we were all forgiven. It is another thing to receive that forgiveness.”

Ifs Persons Doe Done Asks Conscious Accounts Forgiving Sorry Forgiven Saying Sorry

Author:Pope Francis

“A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.”

People Shows Tvs Accounts Institutions Journalism Tv Shows Old People Good Journalism

Author:David Simon

“My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.”

Firsts Wells Long Whole Careers Creative Products Internet Degrees Accounts Fascination Trivia

Author:John Hodgman

“God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.”

World Should Prayer Accounts Flaws Alliances

Author:Philip Yancey

“The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.”

Thinking Giving Important Feelings Problem Happens Fighting Energy Attitude Taken Nice Dangerous Waste Accounts Warm Nervous Positive Attitude More Time Permit Clients Dangerous Things

Author:Leo Burnett

“Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.”

Seems Existence Psychology Judging Personality Offers Accounts Unconscious Latter Evident Elders Astrology

Author:Carl Jung

“Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.”

Ifs Numbers Baby Despair Accounts Crisis Anguish Joyous Ecological Ecological Crisis Life And Family

Author:Jason Alexander

“The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.”

Ifs Way Doe Interest Break Reader Letters Accounts Ads Headlines Advertisements Make Or Break

Author:Robert Collier

“There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.”

Mind Values Principles Accounts Tendencies Radical Faculty Adequate

Author:George Santayana

“I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.”

Years Accounts Ill Sober Being Sober

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have.”

Accounts Bank Accounts

Author:Suze Orman

“The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.”

People May Percent Performances Accounts Interaction Performance Review

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.”

Ifs Way Giving Believe Stills Life Is Prayer Answers Lord Praying Giving Up Devil Accounts Cease Tempted Repent Our Lord

Author:Teresa of Avila

“If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Bigs Care Age Life Is Accounts Don't Care Disaster I Don't Care Bank Accounts

Author:Warren Buffett

“The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.”

Found Opportunity Religious Leader Pride Accounts Lust Excellent Stations Disguise Covetousness Religious Leaders Untrustworthy

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“The worst financial decision you can ever make in your life, is to steal something. The second is like it, and that is to cheat someone. Even, if it would appear that you were never brought to account for it.”

Ifs Life Is Decision Worst Accounts Financial Stealing Cheat

Author:Strive Masiyiwa