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• You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Mean, Squares

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• Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

  Roger Housden

  Energy, India, Example

  Roger Housden (1996). “Travels Through Sacred India”, Thorsons Pub

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• When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or because of gender. And I do take that into account.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, People, Discrimination

  "Senators Offer Competing Views Of Sotomayor". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 28, 2009.

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• Theology is a non-subject. I'm not saying that professors of theology are non-professors. They do interesting things, like study biblical history, biblical literature. But theology, the study of gods, the study of what gods do, presupposes that gods exist. The only kind of theology that I take account of are those theological arguments that actually argue for the existence of God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Biblical, Interesting, Literature

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Should Have, Matter

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Audience Of One, People, Giving

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Democracies Have, Rights

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

  Martin Luther

  Forgiving, Satisfaction, Confession

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• Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.

  George Herbert

  Knows

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.325

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• It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

  Alexander Smith

  Memorable, Sentences, Consequence

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.43

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• While the Bibles account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

  Ken Ham

  Judgment, Mercy, Salvation

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• In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Jesus, Mean

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• Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

  Sean Wilentz

  Light, Giving, Historical

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• Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

  Michael Arrington

  Google, Stories, Broke

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• Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Cds, Goal

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vanity, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

  Enric Sala

  Ocean, Deposits, Overfishing

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• Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Running, Kindness, Might

  "Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  Samuel J. Palmisano

  Impact, Differences, People

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• When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).

  Henry Cloud

  Mean, Responsibility, Heart

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Book

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• I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

  Antony Beevor

  Half, Dozen, Archives

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• I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  People, Saving, Pay

  "The Great Debate: To Automate or Not" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.

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• Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Soul, Humanity

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Wordsworth Editions

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