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Because every punter has to register full identity details to open an account with exchanges, and sign a declaration allowing the authorities access to that account, it is more likely that we are today seeing the results of this extra source of intelligence. [on scandals in betting]
View quotes by J A McGrath
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
View quotes by Prince Charles
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be...
View quotes by Isaac Asimov
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
View quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
View quotes by Will Rogers
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
View quotes by Douglas Adams
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter
No agency is better than its account executives.
View quotes by Samuel Goldwyn
Exaggerated claims laced with outright lies [on a report that he used the company account as a personal piggy bank]
View quotes by Lord Black
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
View quotes by Alice Walker
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
View quotes by Euripides
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
View quotes by Quentin Crisp
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
View quotes by Irwin Corey
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.
View quotes by Angela Carter
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
View quotes by Paula Poundstone
Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
View quotes by Lionel Trilling
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.
View quotes by Thomas Nagel
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