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• Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

  Trevanian

  Philosophy, Chess, Western

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.165, Broadway Books

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• When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.

  Liz Miller

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sometimes, Obsolete, Scope

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• Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

  Peter Drucker

  Balance, Cost, Assumption

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• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  Jean Shepherd

  White, Cost, Ridiculous

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• I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

  Bob Newhart

  Years, Two, Giving

  "Bob Newhart talks about stand-up, sitcoms, and why he stays busy". Interview with Jesse Thorn, tv.avclub.com. May 16, 2012.

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• There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.

  Kenneth Lay

  Issues, Problem, Economy

  "Kenneth Lay: Enron's embattled ex-chairman" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2002.

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• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Mark Udall

  Believe, Needs, Done

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• Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Team, Book, Home

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• Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Home, Past, Years

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• This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

  John F. Kerry

  Hurt, Administration, Gimmicks

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• By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Country, Military, Marine

  Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.

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• Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

  Will Rogers

  Political, Taste, Election

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

  Claude Bissell

  Taken, Social, Disaster

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• There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Heart, Mystery, Problem

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• Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

  Simone Weil

  Sacrifice, Balance, Looks

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Sleep, Soldier

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• There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books.

  Marc Cohn

  Monday, Book, Reflection

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• I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air - but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Thinking, Air, Discovery

  Joel Meyerowitz (1990). “Creating a sense of place”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.

  Muriel Siebert

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Investing, Earning

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."

  Bocafloja

  Responsibility, Color, White

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

  Iain Banks

  Mysticism

  "Excession" by Iain Banks, Bantam Books hardcover edition, (p. 364), 1996.

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• No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

  Toni Morrison

  Simple, Joy, Teeth

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• Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

  Stephen Metcalf

  Dark, Interesting, Wicked

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