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According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is

– Alan B. WattsRate it:

According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

– Charles RichterRate it:

According to different points of view. To the pessimist: Enemies are everywhere, waiting to ambush you. For the optimist: friends are everywhere, waiting to embrace you.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

– Jimmy CarterRate it:

According to Milley, the calls were arranged due to “concerning intelligence” that the Chinese were concerned about a potential US attack on them. “I know, I am certain that President Trump did not intend to attack the Chinese,” Milley said. “My task at that time was to de-escalate.”

– Staff Chairman Mark MilleyRate it:

According to polygamy, men are royals and women so loyal.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

According to Shakespeare, Love is blind. But it may not be the whole truth. It's possible that Love may turn a blind eye, knowingly and intentionally, to the follies and flaws that are otherwise also so harmless. In my view, only Love enables you to see the truth, and it's only Love that empowers you to find your way in the dark. So with all respect to Shakespeare, I must say that Love is not blind, most definitely and positively!

– Deodatta V. Shenai-KhatkhateRate it:

According to St. Paul women are not allowed to be public teachers in the church.”

– Matthew HenryRate it:

According to the astrological signs, all the humans are born outside of our planet Earth.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

According to the ideology of reincarnation, Earth is both your heaven and your hell. Everything is paid for and rewarded here.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

According to the law of the oscillation of a pendulum. The stronger the love, the stronger the hatred whenever you decide to part ways with your loved one. Mood swings have to go through the laws of balance.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Accordingly, as principles and rules, such resolutions, whatever context holds that execute nothing if that cannot enforce the action without distinctions.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Account no man happy till he dies.

– EuripidesRate it:

Accountability breeds response-ability.

– Stephen CoveyRate it:

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

– Charles SimmonsRate it:

accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. from what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

– W. H. AudenRate it:

Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

– John MiltonRate it:

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

– Saint Teresa of AvilaRate it:

Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, try to inhabit the speaker’s mind.

– Marcus AureliusRate it:

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

– John LahrRate it:

Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all.

– CasinoRate it:

Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks.

– Julius RosenwaldRate it:

Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

– CasinoRate it:

Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing

– CasinoRate it:

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