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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. – Jawaharlal Nehru	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. – Joseph F. Newton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. – Fulton John Sheen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it. – Donald G. Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word. – Alexander Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. – Hannah Whitall Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. – Lionel Trilling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. – Paula Poundstone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! (24 December 1886) – Dr. Jose P. Rizal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Happiness: A good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. – Jean Jacques Rousseau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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