Accounts Quotes - Page 18

• In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  Years, Switzerland, Frozen

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• In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

  Thomas Frank

  America, Tasks, Calling

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• The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Science, Probability Theory, Appreciate

  "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

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• ...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

  Xenophanes

  Wisdom, Horse, Athlete

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• Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

  Ludacris

  Night, Wish, Politics

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• In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Passion, Men, Battle

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• A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

  Richard Hell

  Giving, Thread, Incidents

  "Q&A: Richard Hell Has Gone to Heaven". Interview with Scott Martelle, www.esquire.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  Josephus

  Father, Cities, Jerusalem

  Flavius Josephus (1825). “The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus”, p.128

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• I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.

  Etgar Keret

  Stories, Embarrassing, Discouraging

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• Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

  Chris Kyle

  Believe, People, Faces

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

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• There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Running, Philosophy, Two

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• A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

  Michelle Malkin

  Children, School, Phones

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• Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

  Dave Obey

  Dollars, Conviction, Bank Accounts

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• Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

  Aristotle

  Doe, Needs, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Physics”, p.82, Aristotle

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• A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

  Vincent Piazza

  Powerful, Eye, Men

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• I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.

  Dev Patel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

  Jim Parsons

  Couple, Interesting, Want

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

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• We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Country, Pride, Proud

  "Patriotism and Michelle Obama: A 4th of July Reflection" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2008.

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• We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Book, Parent, Atmosphere

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

  George Saunders

  Goal, Mind, Trying

  "This week in fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Mitt Romney's losing at this point in a big way. If something's going to come out, get it out in a hurry. I do not know why - given that Mr. Romney knew the day that [Sen. John] McCain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again - that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest.

  George Will

  Running, President, Way

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• Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.

  Newt Gingrich

  Believe, Cutting, Grandmother

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• Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Country, Europe, Debt

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Artist, Culture, Genius

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