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“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”

World Needs Heart Mean Loses Break Failing This World Offers Succeed Accounts Memoir Intimacy Gossip Truthful Testimony Break Your Heart

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Nietzsche seems sometimes to replace the "transcendence" which stands at the center of traditional accounts the existence of a transcendent God, or, failing that, a transcendental viewpoint with that of a continually transcending activity. ... There is no single, final perspective, but given any one perspective, we can always go beyond it.”

Sometimes Seems Given Existence Failing Perspective Activity Accounts Finals Traditional Transcendence Transcendent Viewpoints Transcendental Transcending

Author:Raymond Geuss

“We will never be able to understand the terrible things that happened between 1933 and 1945 if we deny from the outset that Hitler also had human characteristics, and if we fail to take into account not only his criminal energies, but also the appealing qualities he had.”

Ifs Humans Able Energy Quality Failing Happened Terrible Accounts Deny Criminals Characteristics Terrible Things

Author:Volker Ullrich

“The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.”

Giving Should Failing Position Fairs Tests Accounts Financial Accurate

Author:Kevin Warsh

“That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.”

Said Seems Failing Subjects Accounts Incredibles Statistics Cents

Book:The Empire of Business

Source: The Empire of Business

“It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.”

Men Common Failing Fairs Accounts Weather Tempest

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Love flies, runs, leaps for joy; it is free and unrestrained. Love gives all for all, resting in One who is highest above all things, from whom every good flows and proceeds. Love does not regard the gifts, but turns to the Giver of all good gifts. Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength; love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. Love therefore does great things; it is strange and effective; while he who lacks love faints and fails.”

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime