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“We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.”

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Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.”

Ifs Knows Way Bigs Running Lost Given President Republican Losing Accounts Romney Mccain Tidy Offshore

Author:George Will

“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.”

Way Heart Wealth Money Worry Accounts Follow Your Heart Bank Accounts

Author:Daylle Deanna Schwartz

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“People really do identify with the characters they see on the show, but these days, social media allows you to interact with fans in a really interesting way. On my Twitter account, I'm Chris Carmack, not Will Lexington. I interact with fans and joke with them. I'll post pictures from my life. I think that helps drop the curtain of a character.”

People Thinking Way Character Helping Shows Social Interesting Fans Media Jokes Accounts Social Media Posts These Days Curtains Really Interesting Interesting Ways Lexington

Author:Chris Carmack

“Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.”

Way Dog Accounts Track Best Way Accountability

Author:Edward Higgins White

“The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.”

Way Feels Numbers Keys Accounts Lays Mma Bank Accounts Key To Happiness

Author:Joe Rogan

“When your account has these massive swings up and down, there's a tendency to feel a rush when the market is going your way and devastation when it's going against you. These emotions do absolutely nothing to make you a good trader. It's far better to keep the equity swings manageable and strive for a sense of balance each day, no matter what happens.”

Way Feels Matter Happens Emotion Balance Accounts No Matter What Strive Tendencies Each Day Massive Swings Equity Up And Down Absolutely Nothing Traders Devastation Manageable

Author:Tom Basso

“In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.”

“To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?”

Ifs Thinking Way Dies Walks Brain Accounts Debt Dues Forests Settling Delinquents

Author:Katy Lederer

“Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.”

Way Used Color Accounts Characteristics Yellow Brilliance

Book:The Colour Photography Field Guide: The Essential Guide to Hue for Striking Digital Images

Source: The Colour Photography Field Guide: The Essential Guide to Hue for Striking Digital Images

“...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.”

Way Seems School Teach Research Accounts University Offering Incapable Fragments Institute Unified Disconnected Institutes

Book:Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Source: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

“I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.”

Thinking Way Turns Culture Animal Moral Special Accounts Species Agents

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.”

Way Long Feelings Found Felt Growing Up Growing Long Time Lonely Accounts Obsession So Lonely Found Someone

Author:Lana Del Rey

“This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.”

Way Wells Book Differences Powerful Reader Accounts Permit Genocide Brutality Polemics

Author:John M Swomley

“Having someone in your class call you fat, ugly, too tall and so on, you start to think all those things about yourself. And if you're like me, those words are played on repeat inside your head. When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them. Now we have so many more social outlets, there are so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account, just be yourself. Be who you want to be.”

“I know the way, what I have to walk. I know the spiritual power, world-creating energy, what I have to lay its account with. There's no doubt: we come out into a better still world part and we will be delighted in unfailing fairnesses.”

Knows World Way Stills Spiritual Energy Walks Doubt Creating Accounts Lays No Doubt Fairness Delighted Spiritual Power

Author:Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.”

“Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Facts Form Used Understanding Accepting Knowing Understood Accounts Assuming Familiar Used To Be Analysis Thoughtful Deceiving Pros And Cons

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.”

Ifs Way May Reader Morality Accounts Wit Temper Speculation Endeavour

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.”

Way Has Beens Seems Worry One Thing Possibility Circumstances Accounts Chosen Factors Upset Delightful Calculations Without God Calculating Chosen By God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.”

Way Years Order Effects Thirds Accounts Imitation Limbs Outlines Maidens Slender Adornment Corinthians

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.”

Men Way Women He Man Lovers Accounts Regard

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“There is no coherent knowledge , i.e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information , obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains.”

World Way Different Facts Problem Pieces Events Information Source Benefits Accounts Details Lists Best Way Curious Different Ways Uniforms Coincidence Domain Comprehensive Presenting

Book:Farewell to Reason

Source: Farewell to Reason

“In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.”

Way Accounts Settling Inclination Marxist Sociologists

Author:Raymond Aron

“We have to prepare for what life could become in 40 years. We need to outline what is possible and what is impossible with the non-renewable resources of the Earth. What role will technological improvement play? Taking all this into account, what kind of life can we produce in the best way for 10 billion people? That's a problem that needs to be solved.”

People Way Needs Years Kind Play Problem Earth Roles Impossible Produce Resources Accounts Billions Improvement Best Way Technological Outlines Renewable Resources

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.”

Way Doe Different Use Loss Accounts Spread Manage Firm Investors

Author:Ben Stein

“In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.”

Way Stills Bigs Motivation Term Powerful Accounts Balls Admirer Assange

Author:Alex Gibney

“I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady.”

People Ifs Way Use Certain Actors Accounts Access If I Could Personal Life

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.”

Way Accounts Deeper Cinema Remakes

Author:Jacques Audiard

“Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.”

“As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himself completely. If you consider the way the whole world was impacted, 18 million people worldwide died, and that is taking into account military and civilian deaths: 18 million people. And it was the whole world, if you will. You know, many of those trenches were dug by Chinese. There are photographs of Chinese looking like they just came from China, with their hats and so on, digging the trenches, right from the beginning.”

People Ifs Knows Men World Way Firsts Said War Whole Millions Military Accounts Died Photograph China Whole World Chinese Hats Civilians Digging Great War Trenches Civilian Deaths

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.”

“If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.”

Ifs Men Way Want Firsts Strong Weak Accounts Coward Valiant

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.”

World Way Needs Believe War Ends Government Chance Security Possibility Accounts Lifetime Reasonable Japan Allies End Of The World Menace

Author:Winston Churchill

“I think by all accounts in the same way we look back on the anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments of our history with shame and derision and with a healthy dose of mockery, that's how we will very likely look back on this sort of anti-Muslim sentiment as well in the next generation.”

Thinking Way Wells Looks Next Generations Healthy Accounts Shame Catholic Sentiments Next Generation Dose Mockery Derision

Author:Reza Aslan

“Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.”

Way Giving Lasts Fiction Accounts Nails Stop Time

Author:Rebecca West

“In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.”

People Way Want Believe Action Order I Believe Clear Environment Our Lives Consequence Accounts Including Misunderstood Our Actions Incumbents Consequences Of Our Actions

Author:Michael Crichton

“The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.”

Way Trying Ideas Earth Fall Influence Effects Planets Accounts Balls Tables Western Blow Pool Leafs Galaxy Neglected Convergence Pool Table

Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

Source: Chaos: Making a New Science

“It makes no difference to a widow with her savings in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation or pays no income tax during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leaves her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 100 percent income tax but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“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

“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

“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

“Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.”

Way May Character Certain Plans Stage Pages Accounts Altered

Author:Rose Tremain

“Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.”

People Way Mind Believe Littles Faces Life Is Values Accounts Optimistic Swear Naive Outlook Open Mind Being Positive Face Value Outlook On Life Eyewitnesses

Author:Rhys Darby

“In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Looks Order Dark Horror Scene Accounts Warm Saved Unhappy Contemporary One Way Grandmother Bleak Eleanor

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“Also not being afraid to stand up for what you believe in while taking into account that you could very well be wrong, or maybe there's another way to look at it- that things are not what they seem to be, and that everything is subjective.”

Way Believe Wells Looks Seems Accounts Subjective Another Way Being Afraid Stand Up For What You Believe In Things Are Not What They Seem

Author:Surya Das

“There is no difference in a country between military, economic, and political affairs. It's useful for Business Insider to divide things that way. That's useful for a college program. But a country is a country. How do you understand China's economy without China's army? If you take these all into account you're ready to explain a question like, "How come the US doesn't have a debt problem?"”

Ifs Way Country Problem Political Differences Economy Economic Military College Ready Program Accounts Army Affair China Debt Divides Insiders

Author:George Friedman