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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Account no man happy till he dies." »Euripides
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"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." »Douglas Adams
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"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield
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"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." »The Talmud
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"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." »John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." »Joseph F. Newton
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"Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account." »Hannah Whitall Smith
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." »Will Rogers
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." »George Eliot
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"Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil
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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 John Sheen
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"My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women,--or stop loving you, no matter what you do." »Catullus
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"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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"If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it." »Donald G. Smith
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"Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday." »Samuel Johnson
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"It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty." »Lionel Trilling
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"One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child." »Forest Witcraft
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"I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word." »Alexander Smith
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"The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account." »Richard R. Grant
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"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ." »Isaac Asimov
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"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection." »Bertrand Russell
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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo It is our own." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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