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“I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.”

“In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.”

Firsts Hard Age Trouble Conditions Information Thousand Accounts Financial Currents Investors Accurate Reserves Veils Monetary Fleeing Accurate Information

Author:Lawrence Summers

“The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.”

States United United States Balance Accounts Trade Currents Usual Items Deficit Payment

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“The fears of recession in the aftermath of Black Monday have turned to fears of the economy racing ahead too fast, with inflation edging up and a substantial current account deficit... People understandably feel more confident about their future than they've done for decades, but as a result they have been borrowing more and saving less... Coming on top of a massive income investment boom, it's all been just a bit too much of a good thing.”

“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.”

Real Possibility Skills Accounts Pressure Management Crisis Currents Oil Uncertainty Tested Deficit Crisis Management Management Skills

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best account so far of how, and why, current American journalism has become so pharisaical, spineless, and detached from the truth”

Firsts Hands News Accounts Currents Journalism Accurate Spares Detached Jason Superstar Junkie Spineless

Author:T. D. Allman

“Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

Ends Might Running Kindness Depends Accounts Currents Stranger Empires Deficit American Empire

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.”

Giving Happens Individual Study Accounts Currents Grammar

Author:Noam Chomsky

“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

“Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.”

Would Be Decision Policy Accounts Currents Borrowing

Author:Andrea Leadsom

“emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy. It is to know the past and to use such relevant history as a template for expectations. It is, most of all, to force reason ahead of instinct, to refuse to demonize that which you hate, and to, most of all, accept your own fallibility.”

Source: The Orc King: Transitions

“According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.”

Thinking Persons Age Religious Levels Products Circumstances Research Percent Determination Accounts Currents Gender Income Occupation Genetics Ethnicity Affiliation

Book:The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Source: The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun