Assign Quotes
85 quotes by 82 authors
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
— Winston Churchill
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which…
— Giordano Bruno
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems…
— Aristotle
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
— Tony Robbins
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only…
— Sydney Lea
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
— Ani DiFranco
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the…
— George Washington
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed…
— Sigmund Freud
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
— Marianne Moore
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As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live…
— David Byrne
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It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;…
— Pope Adrian IV
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I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad…
— David Ogilvy
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It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on…
— Emile Durkheim
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to…
— Edward Sapir
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Do these fuels result always and necessarily in one way from the decomposition of a pre-existing organic substance? Is it thus with the hydrocarbons so…
— Marcellin Berthelot
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