Accounts Quotes - Page 21

• In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Three, Moral

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• A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Personality

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• 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.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Fiction, Literature

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson" edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  Bayard Taylor

  Jerusalem, Emotion, Assuming

  Bayard Taylor (1862). “Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...”, p.85

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• If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Becoming, Income

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931”

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• Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Powerful

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Penguin

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• The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.

  Joe Rogan

  Keys, Mma, Numbers

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• Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

  Louis Simpson

  Creativity, Character, Views

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.

  Melvin Konner

  Spiritual, Healing, Differences

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• When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

  Hiroko Sakai

  Inspiration, Needs, Painting

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• The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!

  Alice O. Howell

  Taken, Astrology, Weather

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• Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sleep, Men, Jumping

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”

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• Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.

  Bill Vaughan

  Saving, Fidelity, Accountants

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• Most of my life, I read what is said on IMDB. The fans on the Raw is War board make the most sense of any Internet fan, apart from the one or two that create second accounts to bash me. Keep the board alive-uh. Paul Levesque

  Bill Vaughan

  War, Two, Alive

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• When your account has these massive swings up and down, there's a tendency to feel a rush when the market is going your way and devastation when it's going against you. These emotions do absolutely nothing to make you a good trader. It's far better to keep the equity swings manageable and strive for a sense of balance each day, no matter what happens.

  Tom Basso

  Swings, Balance, Devastation

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• He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Honor, Littles, Height

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1516, Moody Publishers

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• Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Spring, Hunting

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Years, Class

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.159, Fordham Univ Press

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• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Knowing, Shaving

  Charles Dickens (1848). “The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc”, p.168

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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• If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Cases, Conditions

  1865 Auguste Comte and Positivism.

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• If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.

  Ninian Smart

  Buddhism, Thinking, Contemplative Life

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

  Aaron Huey

  People, Needs, Saving

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