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“Burma is located between China, India, and South East Asia. So it is quite natural that a country wanting diplomatic relations with our country would pay attention to who our regional neighbors are. It is not at all fair to ask a country to build relations with Burma but not take into account the situation in China. There is no way to think that taking the Chinese situation into consideration shows a disregard for Burma.”

“Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now generally recognized in Biblical scholarship that it has done the opposite. The Bible is not a historical text, and has only vague resemblances to what took place, as far as can be reconstructed. For example, whether Israel ever existed is not clear; if so, it was probably a small kingdom somewhere in the hills, apparently virtually unknown to the Egyptians.”

Ifs Done Effort Clear Century Example Opposites Accounts Historical Israel Kingdoms Authenticity Hills Biblical Vague Scholarship Resemblance Archaeology

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Even the greatest of all strategists must occasionally take into account the presence of an enemy.”

Enemy Accounts Strategist

Author:Colin Powell

“The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.”

Wells Children Play Whole Shows Choices Hours Pay Careers Roles Break Type Research Argument Accounts Myth Discrimination Factors Related Gaps Suggesting Pay Gap

Author:Laura Bates

“QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.”

Ifs Used Policy Standards Aspect Accounts Crisis Inequality Feds Bail

Author:Gerald Epstein

“In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated.”

“The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.”

Humans Quality Class Rights Security Balance Capitalism Accounts Threat Democratic Human Rights Working Class Free Market Entrepreneurial Variables Wartime Incompatibility Free Market Capitalism

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground.”

Thinking Should Long Use Goal Term Natural Company Heard Influence Development Accounts Including Long Term Accounting Integrating Sustainable Development Accountants

Author:Kofi Annan

“We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into.”

Want Kind Ends Reason Seems Purpose Accounts Wander Literacy Somewhere Else

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God did was set the mechanism in motion and then allow people to do the best they can under the circumstances that they're dealt in order to gain grace and get into heaven.”

People World Wells Facts Happens Order Evil Heaven Grace Circumstances Gains Accounts Catholic Theology Mechanism Do The Best

Author:Roger Ebert

“The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you talk to an artist about it, you're talking to someone who wasn't there. It's hopeless. And also it's insulting. It's implying that the work is not an adequate account of itself. To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.”

Ifs Problem Artist Left Brain Talking Accounts Hopeless Adequate Insulting Implying Talking To Someone Left Brain

Author:Jonathan Santlofer

“People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.”

People Fighting Interest Accounts

Author:Asghar Ali Engineer

“Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.”

Ifs Thinking Two Guy Hate Dies Nice Car Six Opposites Accounts I Hate Increase Misery Jew Inches Homosexual This Guy Bank Accounts

Author:Maya Angelou

“If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Facts Might Would Be Certain Values Buddhism Involved Accounts Appeals Reasonable Mystical Mystic Pragmatic Contemplative Contemplative Life

Author:Ninian Smart

“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.”

Ideas Reason Night Memories Creative Crime Scene Accounts Awake Fragments Unreliable Fragmentation Eyewitnesses

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.”

Ifs Should Two Important Accounts Structure Characteristics Maps Territory Usefulness

Book:Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics

“Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.”

Humans War Values Struggle Conflict Accounts Constant Human History Clash Primacy

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”

Thinking Use Science Speak Language Technology Accounts Mute Science And Technology Applied Science Best Technology Use Of Technology

Author:J. G. Ballard

“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

People Want Should Wells Made Facts Jobs President Known Capable Accounts Well Known Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Hitchhiking Funny Leadership

Author:Douglas Adams

“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”

Giving Able Science Process Genius Accounts

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.”

Made Seems Accounts Debt Former Latter Exceed

Book:1769-1793

Source: 1769-1793

“That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.”

Children Mother Given Taken Drug Concern Accounts Transmission

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.”

Thinking Looks Children Today Parent Dying Information Accounts Patient Incredibles Look Up Scare Google Breakthrough

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.”

Accounts Army Mates Wedding Bells Splits Buddy Splitting Wedding Day Splitting Up Wedding Bells

Author:Paul McCartney

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

Inspirational Reality Work Effort Learning Blessing Percent And Love Accounts Intelligence Dues Serendipity Work And Love

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.”

Should President Powerful Tests Accounts Critical Chiefs Operations Commanders Bin Laden Exhibits Commander In Chief Weighing

Author:Jon Meacham

“I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.”

Ifs Needs Giving Attitude Accounts Blame No Point Bad Attitude Wrong Attitude

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.”

Ifs Inspirational Humans Seems Religious Loss Courage Comfort Accounts Affair Trials Affliction Your Loss

Author:Saint Basil

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

Ifs Men Accounts Competing Bank Accounts Business Man Ulcers

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.”

Danger Accounts Function Intelligence Irony Ironic

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.”

Writing Use Hate Stuff Pages Accounts I Hate Familiar Facebook Page Personal Stuff

Author:Elon Musk

“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”

“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”

Ifs Writing Littles Novel Accounts Narrative

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”

Facts Accounts Disappear Likes Pandit

Book:Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

“The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.”

Accepting Economy Perspective Doctors Accounts Patient Advertising Intimate Agency Clients Advertising Agencies

Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.”

Stills Ideas Home Seems Voice Numbers Machines Accounts Phones Cells No Idea Mail Google Site Sentimental Cell Phone Fax Fax Machines

Author:Susan Orlean

“Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.”

Book Courses Lines Behinds Quality Enemy Dog Battle Messages Accounts Smell Planes Troops Warfare Tin Tin Tin

Author:Susan Orlean

“Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'”

Balance Accounts Track Spending Wrecks Checking Accounts

Author:Suze Orman

“Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.”

Months Cost Accounts Unions Eight Credit Priorities Credit Unions

Author:Suze Orman

“The advantage of online banking is that you can pay bills superfast, and your account is automatically credited or debited for each deposit and payment, making it easier to stay on track.”

Pay Easier Advantage Accounts Bills Track Online Banking Payment Deposits

Author:Suze Orman

“Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.”

People Ifs Made Interest Hurt Chance Pay Company Balance Limits Tough Accounts Rate Credit Cards Score Closing Payment Credit Card Interest Rate Timely Good Chance

Author:Suze Orman

“Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!”

Knows Should Years Mean Said Body Lasts Morning Drug Abuse Accounts Alcohol Lifestyle Attributes Longevity Good Morning

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.”

People Inspirational Accounts Regard Prudent Donation Benefactors

Author:Joseph Addison

“Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.”

Problem Government Care Common Economy Plans Fit Accounts Size Solve Common Sense Health Care Health Care System Top Down One Size Fits All

Author:Sarah Palin

“To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.”

Needs Giving Mines Periods Accounts Brilliant Pens Accurate Brilliant Ideas

Author:Max Beerbohm

“If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.”

Ifs Men Want Accounts Bases Statements Distress Tested Physiognomy

Book:Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings

Source: Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”

Knows World Firsts Country Science Humanity Nations Knowledge Hard Work Highest Accounts Intelligent Carrie Torches Personification

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?”

Heart Reason Animal Hair Beats Accounts Wings Pet Animal Rights Rapper Feathers Covering Fur Animal Welfare Animal Cruelty Heart Beat Animal Life Animal Ethics Animal Testing Wildlife Animals

Author:Jean Paul

“My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.”

Children Doctors Accounts Ministers Professors Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Rand Paul

“Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.”

Taken Psychology Accounts Structure Mathematical Logical Linguistics Epistemology

Author:Jean Piaget

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