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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. — James M. Barrie
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're… — Candice Bergen
If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced… — Annie Besant
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the… — Joseph Campbell
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no… — Epictetus
It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs. — Janet Napolitano
...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the… — John of Kronstadt
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than… — Eric Hoffer
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their… — Ludwig von Mises
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The… — Woodrow Wilson
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire… — Thomas Jefferson
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real… — Herman Melville

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