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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.
  • If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
  • 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.
  • I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
    As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Meredith A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Douglas Adams Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Eliot 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Fort Newton A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • St. John of the Cross Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Napoleon Ability is of little account without opportunity.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Guy Debord Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • William Hazlitt Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Dale Carnegie Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Euripides Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Ben Foster Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Agatha Christie Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory — let the theory go.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Carlos Slim First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Gene Brown Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Going home must be like going to render an account.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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