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He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jane Austen quote: "You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call..."
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. Jane Austen
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge..."
When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. Friedrich Nietzsche
That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.” Eddie shook his head. “We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain’t fair.” The Blue Man held out his hand. “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. Mitch Albom
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right. Thomas Jefferson
I do not teach truth as such; I do not transform myself into a diaphanous mouthpiece of eternal pedagogy: I settle accounts , however I can, on a certain number of problems; with you and with me or me, and through you, me and me, with a certain number of authorities represented here. I understand that the place I am now occupying will not be left out of the exhibit or withdrawn form the scene. Nor do I intend to withhold even that which I shall call, to save time, an autobiographical... Jacques Derrida
He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night. Mark Haddon
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly, when I am loosed. Joseph Hall
I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most. Bono
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God. Epictetus
Janeane Garofalo quote: "Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it..."
Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in. Janeane Garofalo
Shusaku Endo quote: "A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society."
A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society. Shusaku Endo
Stephen Covey quote: "When the trust account is high, communication is easy,..."
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. Stephen Covey
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley
On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now. Craig Ferguson

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