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Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

But if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil.

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...

He's [Henson's] not a player who is renowned for dirty play and you read things that if he'd apologised straight after the event then that would have been taken into account.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Exaggerated claims laced with outright lies [on a report that he used the company account as a personal piggy bank]

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.