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The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.


David McCullough


#morality #technology #nature

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.


Mahatma Gandhi


#responsibility #responsibility

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility.


Melissa Bean


#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.


Max Beerbohm


#accurate #brilliant #exhaustive #far #far less

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.


Michael Behe


#any #biochemical #comparison #comparisons #complex

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.


Clive Bell


#aesthetic #conceive #critic #degree #emotion

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.


Richard Branson


#before #business #consumer #done #especially

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.


Julia Cameron


#because #bit #deal #down #fragment

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.


Eric Cantor


#insist #money #spending #time #us

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.


Anna Chlumsky


#acting #bother #figure #food #i






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