#accord

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#accused #between #choice #given #heresy

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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