#accord

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#because #convention #defense #department #detainees

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#happy #happy life #life #nature #own

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#because #comfortable #course #difficult #easiest

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#business #cannot #choose #decide #difference

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#actor #ask #demands #difficult #laws

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#according #age #alcohol #begins #first

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#accord #celibacy #compulsion #does #his

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. ↗

— John Sladek

#exactly #expensive #far #future #like

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#accordingly #changed #i #scope #somewhat