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“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”

People Men Looks Stills Eye Powerful Behinds Violence Lucky Accounts His Eyes Smooth Elegant Very Powerful Powerful Man Older Man

Author:Vincent Piazza

“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”

Years Believe Stills Use Certain Decision Quality Accounts Sight Photographer Photograph Appropriate Vocabulary Embarrassing Compelled I Still Believe

Author:Robert Adams

“But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.”

Stills Science Window Accounts Sight Defiance Riddle

Author:William Cecil Dampier

“As you know, in the 2000 campaign I articulated a point of view that we ought to have personal savings accounts for younger workers that would make sure those younger workers receive benefits equal to or greater than that which is expected, ... I still maintain the same position.”

Knows Stills Views Greater Position Ought Equal Benefits Accounts Workers Point Of View Expected Campaigns Saving Savings Savings Accounts

Author:George H. W. Bush

“Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.”

Stills Lasts Water Fire Holy Accounts Immortal Buckets Reptiles Holy Water Salamanders

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.”

Has Beens Stills Problem Figures Accounts Assuming Credit Customers Checks Cards Trusted No Fear Credit Card Stigma Have No Fear Checking Accounts

Author:Tim Stevens

“After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.”

Giving Mind Firsts Humans May Stills Ends Hands Spirit Prayer Century Revolution Praying Program Mercy Accounts Twenties Steadfast Sketching Human Family Scientific Revolution Good Prayer

Author:Freeman Dyson

“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

“A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.”

May Stills Shows Natural Levels Results Teacher Influence Teaching Capacity Accounts Raises Developing Decline Pupils Good Teacher

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein