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• No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fighting, Race, White

  Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights, 19 June 1963

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• When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?

  Marco Rubio

  Country, News, Lasts

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• For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.

  Christopher Columbus

  Writing, Journey, Purpose

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.11

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• In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

  Herman Cain

  Birthday, Senior, Retirement

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• Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

  Prince Charles

  Attitude, People, History

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

  Edward Higgins White

  Dog, Track, Accountability

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• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  George W. Norris

  Sympathy, Men, Prejudice

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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• Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Men, Care

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• Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

  Bob Schieffer

  Newspapers, Persons, Good Writers

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• For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

  John Podhoretz

  Confusion, Tunes, Records

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• With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Husband, Two, Soul

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

  Jack Adams

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Bird, Lightning, Landscape

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

  Marvin Harris

  Sex, People, Different

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• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  Laura Dern

  Mother, Firsts, Kind

  "New Again: Laura Dern". Interview with Gary Indiana, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 10, 2016.

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• I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Careers, Bank Accounts, Marrying

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• A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

  George Meredith

  Death, Prayer, Memorial

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• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Chance, Turns

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

  Jacques Santer

  Unions, Sensibility

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• To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

  Joshua Slocum

  Taken, Years, Law

  Joshua Slocum, Applewood Books (CRT) (2006). “Sailing Alone Around the World”, p.280, Applewood Books

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• As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

  Simon Newcomb

  Real, Sensual, Navy

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  Abraham Cowley

  Love, Religion, Sin

  'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' 'The Request'

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• Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

  Lydia Lunch

  Bank Accounts, Considerate, Be Considerate

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• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Objectivity, Admitting

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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