If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!
To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.
I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters,. . . It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.
I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account.
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are the first of humanity's intellectual artifacts. They express, they explain, and so they ratify a power of the mind. And, of course, they are artifacts in the process of becoming algorithms.
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he was left to die in the wilderness and a giant, benevolent bird rescued him and became his guardian angel. This tale thrilled me; I've always wanted to write about it.
The banks should give a full, fair, and accurate account of their financial positions and they are failing that test.
Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.