Ascribe Quotes
95 quotes by 86 authors
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Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least resistance, we ascribe…
— Amin Maalouf
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Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even…
— Paul Auster
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You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coYou can't ascribe great cosmic…
— Scott Neustadter
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking…
— David Hume
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God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils…
— Benjamin Rush
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This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'
— John Calvin
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If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.
— Louis Pasteur
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The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even…
— Seth Shostak
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Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies,…
— Wilhelm Wien
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The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
— Samuel Johnson
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Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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O God, thy arm was here, And not to us, but to thy arm alone Ascribe we all.
— William Shakespeare (1564_1616)
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful!praise be to allah, who hath created the heavens and the earth, and hath appointed darkness and…
— Quran
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