Accord Quotes

• If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Idiot, Conformity, My Own

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• All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

  Earl Nightingale

  Goal, Answers, Strangest Secret

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• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

  Henry Reed

  Mean, Psychics, Ideas

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• I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Doubt, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.183, Library of Alexandria

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• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Health, World Suffering

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, People

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• Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Beautiful, Thinking

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• When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Criticism, Beneath The Surface

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

  Laini Taylor

  Respect, Peace, War

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• There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

  Thomas Paine

  Reflection, Thinking, Class

  Thomas Paine (1826). “The age of reason”, p.36

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• What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

  Walter Martin

  Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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• When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Looks, Want

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.256, Courier Corporation

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• First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Being Alone, Simple

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• I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

  Edward Tufte

  Believe, Order, Profound

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• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  Larry Wall

  Running, Paint, Honda

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• One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Men, Years, Law

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Spiritual, Progress, Our Society

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• It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Fire, Views

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

  Bao ?ai

  War, Lasts, Ends

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• One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

  Jacques Chirac

  Two, Appreciate, Months

  "Bush: Tomorrow Is Decision Day for UN". CNN Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2003.

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• No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Long, Doe

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Peace, War

  "The Art of War". Chapter III: Strategic Attack. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

  Albert Einstein

  Gains, Dare, Esteem

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• Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Affection, Divine, Goodwill

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

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