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“What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe. What I’m talking about is a national reckoning that would lead to spiritual renewal. Reparations would mean the end of scarfing hot dogs on the Fourth of July while denying the facts of our heritage. Reparations would mean the end of yelling “patriotism” while waving a Confederate flag. Reparations would mean a revolution of the American consciousness, a reconciling of our self-image as the great democratizer with the facts of our history.”

“If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.”

Ifs Love Lovers Passionate Passionate Love Reckoning Passionate Lovers

Author:Rumi

“Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.”

Ifs World Life Feels Should Wells Real This World Lessons Late Too Late Reckoning Amends Subtraction Making Amends

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table.”

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Author:Al Gore

“You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.”

Spending Borrowing Reckoning

Author:Wilbur Ross

“Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.”

Should Years Mean Running Hours Lines Deeds Reckoning

Book:The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.”

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Author:Andy Weir

“By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.”

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Author:Merlin Mann

“As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.”

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Book:Iacocca: An Autobiography

Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography

“It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.”

Heart Facts Break Ought Paper Destruction Wit Horrible Breakfast Scare Reckoning Interrupting

Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

“By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.”

Book Film Worst Usual Reckoning Best Film

Author:Iain Banks

“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.”

Long Has Beens Reason Eye Science Purpose Mankind Particular Members Instruments Medicine Errors Senses Instance Observation Rely Principal Hypothesis Humane Assembly Reckoning Seamen

Author:Robert Hooke

“The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.”

Believe Made Science Speak I Believe Common Virtue Five Seven Possession Senses Common Sense Countrymen Reckoning Irishmen Census

Author:Lord Kelvin