Accord Quotes

• If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Idiot, Conformity, My Own

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• All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

  Earl Nightingale

  Goal, Answers, Strangest Secret

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• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Doubt, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.183, Library of Alexandria

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• We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

  Henry Reed

  Mean, Psychics, Ideas

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• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Health, World Suffering

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Fire, Journalism, Excellent

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Running, Encouragement

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• For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

  Marie de France

  Love Is, Lovers, Beloved

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

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• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Selfish, Mistake, Emotion

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• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  Lech Walesa

  Courage, Lying, Responsibility

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• The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

  Alexander Pope

  Creativity, Destiny, Creative

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• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Community, Citizens

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House

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• I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Weakness, Credit

  Said about Charles Evans Hughes in November 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, p. 224, 1930.

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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• Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Heart, Soul, Division

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• Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

  Elizabeth I

  Government, Might, Wit

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• Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

  Arthur Peacocke

  World, Debate, Natural

  Arthur Peacocke (2005). “The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science”, p.13, ATF Press

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• A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal

  Hjalmar Branting

  Equality, Humanity, Doe

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary, Doe, True Happiness

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932.

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• The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Strong, Rights, Elements

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Doe, Matter, Celibacy

  "Celibacy and the Priesthood: An Interview with the Future Pope Benedict XVI". Interview with Peter Seewald, www.catholicculture.org.

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• I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Relationship, Roots

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• The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

  John Cage

  Purpose, Operations, Highest

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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