- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accounts Quotes
Different ways of keeping the record.
This collection ranges from sharp criticism of media motives to the way an older figure gets remembered decades later through secondhand recollection. See more in Government quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
- Gospels
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Gospels were written to present the life and teachings of Jesus in ways that would be appropriate to different readerships, and for that reason are not all the same. They were not intended to be biographies of Jesus, but selective accounts that would demonstrate his significance for different cultures.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people focus on the 4 percent rule, which essentially says that as long as you withdraw no more than 4 percent from your retirement accounts each year, the money should last you 30 years.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
- Gender
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone leaves Las Vegas rejuvenated, their skin shining, their bank accounts glowing. No one leaves Vegas, like, 'I didn't make one mistake. That felt great. Back to work.'
- Him
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020