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“We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.”

World Needs Mind Two Different Common Knowledge Accounts Common Sense Just One Different Worlds Two Different Worlds

Author:John Searle

“If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should be like putting money in the bank. If your training works, you continue to deposit into your 'strength' account ... Too much training has the opposite effect. Rather than build, it tears down. Your body will tell when you have begun to tip the balance. Just be sure to listen to it.”

Ifs Inspirational Should Mean Body Race Too Much Progress Effects Tears Balance Training Opposites Accounts Your Body Session Deposits Personal Best

Author:Grete Waitz

“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.”

“As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a piece of paper with a pencil to account for the oranges she had sold, as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight.”

Writing War Helping Motivational Young Girl Fighting Powerful Saws Pieces Paper Accounts Mark Selling Educate Orange Pencils Like Her

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“Today, it is imperative to end this hysteria, to refute the rhetoric of the Cold War and to accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.”

Source: VLADIMIR PUTIN: Munich

“The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.”

Results Doubt Fame Accounts Mathematics Various Math Certainty Mathematical Queens Characteristics Branches No Doubt Peculiar Distinctive Differentiate

Book:The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality

Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality

“Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.”

Process Natural Views Study Students Evolution Argument Accounts Paid Data Preserves Experts Fancy Selection Fossils Natural Selection Stasis

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.”

Way Giving Asks Given Answers Clear Students Evolution Accounts Species Acceptable Agnosticism Origin Of Species

Author:William Bateson

“...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much of that body of work had been fabricated well after the establishment of Islam in order to lend outside support to Koranic mythology.... [T]he Iranian journalist and diplomat Ali Dashti...repeatedly took his fellow Muslims to task for not questioning the traditional accounts of Muhammad's life, much of which he called myth-making and miracle-mongering.”

“Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.”

Men Animal Compassion Creation Ought Creatures Accounts Creator

Author:Bridget of Sweden

“Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.”

Men May War Goodness Accounts Riches Esteem Stations

Book:Cobbett's Political Register

Source: Cobbett's Political Register

“Around the world, we can see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Today, all men have a duty to show themselves worthy of the mission given them by the Creator by ensuring the safekeeping of that creation.”

Men World Shows Care Today Given Results Generations Creation Duty Accounts Creator Worthy Missions Around The World Exploitation Future Generation

Author:Pope John Paul II

“When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.”

Life Is Individual Causes Ignorance Accounts Apathy Unfortunate

Author:Haniel Long

“All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.”

Persons Ideas Power Trust Masters Ought Accounts Portions Founders Impressed Possessing Public Trust

Book:The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Source: The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

“I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.”

Looks Science Purpose Husband Treats Accounts Medicine Look Up Statistics Controversial Handmaids

Author:Karl Pearson

“The wisest man is he who can account for his actions.”

Men Action Inspiring Accounts Wisest Wisest Man

Author:Umar

“Neglect not your time, nor use it haphazardly; on the contrary you should bring yourself to account. Structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night. This is how to bring about the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. If each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, Be not like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life grows ever shorter.”

“...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.”

Energy Environment Accounts Climate Climate Change Surface Gas Greenhouses Whiteness Greenhouse Gases

Author:James Hansen

“Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.”

Wells Moments Facts Energy My Own Environment Accounts Climate Change Global Warming Articles Travesty Causes Of Global Warming

Author:Kevin E. Trenberth

“Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.”

Ifs Energy Process Answers Liberty Accepting Study Environment Criticism Accounts Climate Change Reviews Articles Peers Journal Objections Reviewers Peer Review

Author:Richard Lindzen

“I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.”

Knows Motivation Accounts Conclusion Occasions Subjective All Occasions

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.”

Ifs May Quality Alive Share Photography Accounts Photographer Animation

Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.”

People Giving Trying Believe Looks War I Believe Nations Responsibility Written Duty One Day Tasks Accounts Increase Crush Look Up Heritage Interfere Great War

Author:Wilhelm II

“In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not. All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.”

Knows Has Beens Book War Body Fighting Loss Enemy Millions Clear Fire Five Figures Fields Pages Accounts Wave Eight Remove Assault Ripped Great War Trenches

Author:Paul von Hindenburg

“When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.”

Body House Social Support Accounts Trade Feminist Profession Realms Dictator Entry Bank Accounts

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.”

Whole Fighting Term Secret Enemy Successful Equal Accounts Disadvantages Secret To Success Fighting On

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.”

Giving Should Writing Country Matter Hands Science Desire Names Natural Journey Childhood Accounts Give Me Originals Globes Respectable Niche Explorers Contributors Natural History

Author:Joseph Dalton Hooker

“Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.”

Writing Mind Different Stories Grows Cases Written Materials Accounts Technique Formulas

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Taking into account these distinctions, in harmony with the Magisterium of my Predecessors[81] and in communion with the Bishops of the Catholic Church, I confirm that euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.”

Wells States Class Conditions Higher Accounts Checks Providing Eugenics Euthanasia Lower Class

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

“I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.”

Thinking Eye Events Honesty Photography Accounts Photographer Witness Subjectivity Connotation

Author:David Hurn

“In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.”

Language Written Photography Accounts Photograph Complexity Contrast Vocabulary Destined Readership

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.”

Way Feelings Body Easy Accounts Complicated Acquire Clothings

Book:Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

Source: Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters

“The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.”

Stills Belief Language Magic Air Accounts Breathe Discussion Primitive Relics

Author:Charles Kay Ogden

“The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.”

Way Facts Differences Issues Accounts Died Salvation Martyr Monument Protestants

Author:Alistair Begg

“It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy”

Should Money Democracy Vote Accounts Size Bank Accounts

Author:Barack Obama

“I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.”

People Years May Results Study Bible Accounts Add Historical Testament Old Testament

Author:Robert Dick Wilson

“Worried about an IRS audit? Avoid what's called a red flag. That's something the IRS always looks for. For example, say you have some money left in your bank account after paying taxes. That's a red flag”

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Author:Jay Leno

“There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.”

Important Hands Accounts Factors Cycles Emphasis

Author:Eddy Merckx

“No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.”

Source: The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry

“We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.”

World Firsts Political Strong Taken Influence Economic Policy Ignorance Economics Organization Accounts Prejudice Notes Confusion Factors Policy Making

Author:Ronald Coase

“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.”

May Economy Accounts Ignorant Meals Articles Truest Disdain Converting Cookery Good Cook Wholesomeness

Book:Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...

Source: Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...

“Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.”

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Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.”

Men Made Water Taken Computer Accounts Errors Contribution Global Warming Gas Ignored Equations Junk Calculations Emissions Greenhouses Simulation Greenhouse Gases

Author:Michael Myers

“The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."”

“The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.”

Want Moments Facts Effort Particular Accounts Voting Voters

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.”

Care Lasts Given Fear Sorrow Losing Accounts Guilt Burden Riches Temptation Get Rich

Book:The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

“Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.”

Shows Earth Heaven Events Balance Words Of Wisdom Accounts Floating Favour Diaries Scoundrels Creditors Debtors

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.”

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.”