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To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. Fredrik Bajer | top
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. Max Beerbohm | top
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You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time. Richard H. Davis | top
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Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. Sergei Eisenstein | top
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow. Felix Frankfurter | top
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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. John Marshall Harlan | top
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It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way. John Hutton | top
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No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. John F. Kennedy | top
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Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. George Henry Lewes | top
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The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind: we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been. Meriwether Lewis | top
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With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that. David McCullough | top
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Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion. Charles E. Merrill | top
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One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. Lewis Mumford | top
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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. Thomas Nagel | top
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As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest. Simon Newcomb | top
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It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks. James Payn | top
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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 | top
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For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals. Michael I. Rostovtzeff | top
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You shall hear a good account of me or of my death. Charles Ferguson Smith | top
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. Gerrit Smith | top
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I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under. Henry L. Stimson | top
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God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man. Leo Strauss | top
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These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. Charles Sturt | top
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. Arthur H. Sulzberger | top
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. E. B. White | top