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• Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857.

  Robert V. Remini

  Insightful, Mountain, Events

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• We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

  Joseph O'Neill

  Serious, Logic, Wistfulness

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• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Reflection, Years, Ideas

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.17

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• I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Ideas, Leader

  War As I Knew It (1947).

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• No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

  Burnett Hillman Streeter

  Life, Expression, Personality

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• The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.

  David Hume

  Men, Differences, Words Of Wisdom

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• The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Running, Play

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

  Horace Walpole

  Laughing, Way, Fool

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1858). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.562

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• An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

  Denis Healey

  People, Aviation, Used

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• I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Thank God, Rosary

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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• Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest was to figure out how to solve problems I see in front of me. That's why I looked at the poverty issue. I got involved in lots of things to address it, and one of them was money lending with loans and credits and savings accounts, and in the process I created Grameen Bank. So you can also have social objectives. Ask yourself these questions: Who are you? What kind of world do you want?

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Issues, Addresses

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• To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Love Is, Happiness And Love, Delight

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1890). “The philosophical works of Leibnitz .”, p.380, Рипол Классик

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• The ellipse is as aimless as that,
  Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
  In our present. Its flexing is its account,
  Return to the point of no return.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Return, Flexing

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

  Ken Ham

  Christmas, Creation, Significance

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• Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

  Richard Reti

  Player, Knights, Games

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• A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Rich Countries, White

  Wilbur Smith (2013). “Wilbur Smith's Smashing Thrillers: Hungry as the Sea, Elephant Song and Wild Justice”, p.686, Pan Macmillan

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• And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.

  Lucas Papademos

  Country, Thinking, Judging

  "Cnbc’s Chief International Correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera Speaks With Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos". Interview with Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, www.cnbc.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of Freemasonry, of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points. Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Men, Order, Giving

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• Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

  Gene Brown

  Fools Day, Fool Proof, April

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• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Health, Men

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• By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it.

  James P Hackett

  Thinking, Space, Great Experiences

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• These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

  Nelson Mandela

  Numbers, Facts, Healthcare

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• My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species ... [In fact] the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms.

  Antony Flew

  Believe, Thinking, Dna

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• A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

  Reynolds Price

  Home, Opposites, Silence

  Reynolds Price (1989). “A common room: essays, 1954-1987”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

  John Guare

  Six Degrees Of Separation, Life Is, Brushes

  John Guare (2016). “Six Degrees of Separation: A Play”, p.116, Vintage

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