Accounts Quotes - Page 4

• You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

  Charles Ferguson

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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 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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• The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

  Andy Rooney

  Kids, Games, Lame

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• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Catholic, Deeds

  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (1936). “The Moral Universe”, p.52, Aeterna Press

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• In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Real, People

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• After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

  Maurice Strong

  Running, Mean, Romance

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• Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Years

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

  Robert G. Allen

  Money, Investing Your Time, Saving

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice.

  Socrates

  Inspiration, Return, Injustice

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• By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security.

  Mike Pence

  People, Saving, Social

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

  Leo Strauss

  Men, World, Reason

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• The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

  Franjo Tuđman

  War, Loss, Emotional

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• I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

  Simon Newcomb

  Way, Study, Mathematics

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

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• The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

  Paul Goldberger

  Cutting, People, Taste

  "Homes of the Stars". www.newyorker.com. September 13, 2004.

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• Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

  Grace Napolitano

  Average, Wind, Earning

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• The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Balance, Usual, United States

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• It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Practice, May

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.391

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

  John Doolittle

  Country, Retirement, Order

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• However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Retirement, Loss, Cutting

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• If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

  Russ Feingold

  Office, Should, Congress

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• It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts.

  Mike Pence

  Trust, Saving, Social

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

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