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“[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.”

Book Philosophy Government Science Interesting Fiction History Written Subjects Ought Accounts Prose Verses Good Book Statesmen Science And Philosophy Interesting Book

Book:Bully!

Source: Bully!

“I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.”

People Thinking May Interest Taken Special Subjects Produce Enlightenment Accounts Substance Reports Credibility Ufo Special Interests

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.”

Has Beens Two Government Lasts Political Term Half Impossible Subjects Century Type Organization Accounts Difficulty Mere Logical Resolve Perversion Make Out

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.”

People Knows May Social Subjects Media Criticism Accounts Praise Athlete Social Media Complaining Negativity Grounded Professional Athlete

Author:George Wilson

“Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.”

Kind Literature Interesting Existence Study Subjects Argument Accounts Arguing Theology Professors Biblical Interesting Things Theological God Exists Existence Of God

Author:Richard Dawkins

“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

Science Differences Subjects Accounts Reasoning Scholarship Fuzzy

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.”

World Has Beens Said Imagine Subjects Masters Economics Labor Organization Accounts Raises Constant Unions Ignorant Combination Uniforms Wages Workmen Tacit Wealth Of Nations

Author:Adam Smith

“Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.”

Earth Science Simple Subjects Television Tvs Huge Accounts Screens Idiot Tonight Devices Coincidence Clicks Researchers Asteroids Remote Control

Author:Scott Adams

“The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.”

Subjects Europe Accounts China Splendid

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

“The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.”

Should Said Subjects Speech Accounts Motive

Book:The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

“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