Djuna Barnes
Author, Poet
"A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow."
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Accounts
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account."
Robert K. Merton
Sociologist
"Science is public, not private, knowledge."
Ray Lewis
Football Player
"Let your name be worth more than your bank account"
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God."
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"In science we must be interested in things, not in persons."
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"Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science."
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"He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties."
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"God does not keep an itemized account of all your failures."
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"By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!"
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"All science requires mathematics."
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"When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts."
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"Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season."
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"When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism."
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"Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer."
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"Going home must be like going to render an account."
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"'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'."
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"I always take the audience into account."
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"There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth."
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"Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth."
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"If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth."
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"You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged."
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"Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger."
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"By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account."
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"There is no such thing as a true account of anything."
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