I always take the audience into account.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves. . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.
Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.
I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people and customs, and I know you were raised inside a cage. The last thing you need is to be saddled with a man who can barely walk. Why don't you just go and get your own place and live? I'll be happy to put you on all my accounts. You'll never want for anything. (Adron)I can't do that. (Livia)Why not? (Adron)Because I love you. (Livia)
Take account of yourselves before you are brought to account.
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.
Let your name be worth more than your bank account
If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.
Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-lovehate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.
Science is public, not private, knowledge.
I'm not on Facebook. I have a sort of anonymous account that I check, like, once every six months every time Facebook rolls out a new feature.
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
If I sign up for Facebook and want my account destroyed, it is impossible. They keep tabs on you; there will always be a trace.
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.