Assigned Quotes
215 quotes by 195 authors
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We're all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one…
— Bo Lozoff
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Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
— Susan Sontag
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The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I…
— Gordon Parks
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Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone,…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I…
— Umberto Guidoni
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Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It…
— Wendell Berry
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Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?…
— Wendell Berry
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Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it…
— John C. Maxwell
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Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are…
— Gay Talese
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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate…
— Victor Hugo
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When God has assigned you, He knows where and when to find you.
— Christine Caine
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Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life…
— John Cassian
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True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.
— John C. Maxwell
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the…
— Saffron Burrows
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The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It…
— Charles Francis Richter
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I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of…
— Moses Hadas
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The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Who Wrote These Assigned Quotes
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