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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
‐‐ Bill Gross

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.
‐‐ Diane Garnick

Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education.
‐‐ Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.
‐‐ Julian Robertson

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
‐‐ David Hume

Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
‐‐ Charles Revson

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
‐‐ Anna Jameson

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
‐‐ Adlai E. Stevenson

Accursed be he that first invented war.
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Accurst be he that first invented war.
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.
‐‐ Godfried Danneels

Accusations are useless.
‐‐ Dominique de Villepin

Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
‐‐ Charles J. Givens

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Achievement builds character.
‐‐ Tom Landry

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
‐‐ Adam Ant

Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.
‐‐ Vijender Singh

Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore.
‐‐ Stef Wertheimer

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
‐‐ Tiger Woods

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
‐‐ Richard Wagner

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
‐‐ Ban Ki-moon

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.
‐‐ Brian Tracy

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
‐‐ Edward Burnett Tylor

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.
‐‐ Alan Alda

Acid washed denim was never my favorite.
‐‐ Mia Sara

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
‐‐ Richard Perle

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
‐‐ Yousef Munayyer

Acorns were good until bread was found.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
‐‐ Roman Jakobson

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
‐‐ Isaac Watts

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Acquaintance lessens fame.
‐‐ Claudius

Acquaintance with the human kingdom is limited: between death and a new birth - and this begins immediately or soon after death - the soul has contact and can make links only with those human souls, whether still living on earth or in yonder world, with whom he has already been karmically connected on earth in the last or in an earlier incarnation.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner