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accounts
«The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.»
Author: Renata Adler
| Keywords:
accounts, bourgeois, cocktail party, considerable, dash, distress, documents, global, grudge, local, modern philosophy, obscenity, overall, overalls, overpopulation, satirical, square, The Cocktail Party, unmitigated, unrealized, unsatisfying, variously
«When the [Supreme] Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.»
Author: Robert H. Jackson
| About:
America and Americans,
Books,
Justice,
Opinions
| Keywords:
accounts, high quality, moved to, provided with, Supreme Court
«There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
accounts, amazingly, blew, drastically, every other, factor, fifteen, finely, institution, managed, mystique, pastime, pastimes, pedestal, pedestals, pro, progression, pros, pro football, small number, The Pros, varies, vis-a-vis
«We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.»
«Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
accounts, and so forth, Body of, concerning, deities, distinguished, heroes, invents, mythologies, mythology, origin, primitive
«My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accounts, elementary, elementary education, inaccurately
«Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
accounts, affairs, a million, dozen, half a dozen, half dozen, nail, nailed, simplicity, thousand million, thumb, thumbs, two dozen
«When the time comes to settle their accounts, their red robes are corrupt. His Love is not obtained through hypocrisy. Her false coverings bring only ruin.»
«When they are called to settle their accounts, who will answer then? There shall be no peace then, from counting out by twos and threes. The True Lord God Himself forgives, and having forgiven, He unites them with Himself.»
«Students should acquire human values, in addition to their scholastic, intellectual and other attainments. It is the decline in human values that accounts for the degradation of human beings in the country today.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
accounts, attainments, decline, scholastic