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«Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools»
Author: Gene Brown
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
account, foolproof, ingenuity, systems, take into account
«I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.»
Author: Linda Ellerbee
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
account, felt, finest, game, Good Time, In this World, probably, sound, The Face, The Face of, The Finest, The Game, The Last Laugh
«GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
account, ancestor, an account, descent, genealogies, genealogy, particularly, trace, tracing
«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.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Change
| Keywords:
account, any longer, as it is, continuing, decision, dominant, factor, factor in, inevitable, longer, not only, sensible, society, take account, take into account, taking
«History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
account, an account, brought, brought about, events, knaves, mostly, rulers, soldiers, unimportant
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
account, allowed, best-known, capable, facto, ipso facto, no-account, President, suited, The Job, well known
«I haven't heard of anybody who want's to stop living on account of the cost»
«Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
account, bank, checking account, checks, draw, no-account, resolutions
«If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
account, advocate, advocated, advocating, after all, ears, First to, Genesis, Give Me Liberty, human ear, sacred, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, serpent, thank, The Advocate, whisper
«If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
account, contrive, contrives, contriving, craft, crafted, crafts, from the heart, The Craft, to that
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