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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Help, Takes

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin

Silence, Word, Idle

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Fact, Getting

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

Battle, America, Fighting

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Men, Business

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates

Evil, Him, Injustice

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

Government, Democracy, Keep

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce

History, Soldiers, False

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.
Joyce Meyer

Life, God, Attitude

Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams

Job, Getting, Themselves

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope, Future, Enemy

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today, Night, Themselves

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

Decision, Sensible, Longer

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
Phyllis Diller

Money, Show, Ghetto

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
Al Goldstein

Life, Marriage, Work

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Game, Darkness

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Ambrose Bierce

Care, Descent, Trace

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Him, Worry

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

Change, Society, Today

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

Great, Country, Within

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

Good, Best, Angry

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry

Good, May, Keep

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney

Time, Great, Game

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow

Life, Human, Painful

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
Carlos Santana

Life, Secret, Worth

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

Living, Between, Dead

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

Racism, Treat, Order

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness, Good, Bank

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