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“Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.”

Years Life Is Accounts Remains Posts Forty Compelling Journal Presidency Scandal Watergate

Author:Tom Brokaw

“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“For every rapture there is a price and nothing is sustained forever. The path that destiny takes in the end leads to a balance of payments. No one remains overdrawn forever. Destiny's bank is inexorable, all accounts must balance.”

Ends Destiny Forever Path Balance Accounts Remains Payment Rapture Inexorable

Author:Dorothy Fuldheim

“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.”

Long War States Government Peace Community Possibility Accounts Remains International Reasonable Sovereign International Community

Book:The Causes of Wars and Other Essays

Source: The Causes of Wars and Other Essays

“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

“We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.”

Bigs Happened Mystery Accounts Remains Description Cosmic Bangs

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I am beginning to believe that nothing can ever be proved. These are honest hypotheses which take the facts into account: but I sense so definitely that they come from me, and that they are simply a way of unifying my own knowledge. Not a glimmer comes from Rollebon's side. Slow, lazy, sulky, the facts adapt themselves to the rigour of the order I wish to give them; but it remains outside of them. I have the feeling of doing a work of pure imagination.”

Way Giving Believe Facts Feelings Order Wish Sides Imagination My Own Honest Pure Accounts Remains Lazy Hypothesis Unifying Rigour Sulky

Book:The diary of Antoine Roquentin

Source: The diary of Antoine Roquentin

“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.”

“The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded remains must not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals.”

Wells Made Earth Science Loses Poor Records Glory Accounts Remains Filled Extremes Noble Collections Museums Imperfection Hazards Intervals Embedded Geology

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species