Assigned Quotes
215 quotes by 195 authors
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Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Brooke?†I puff out a sigh. “For chrissake, Reid, who do you think it is? And haven’t you put me into your contacts yet?†“Yeah...…
— Tammara Webber
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Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky…
— Simone Elkeles
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Stupid English." "English isn't stupid," I say. "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject,…
— Jodi Picoult
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Sometimes I think there’s someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there’s…
— Michael Thomas Ford
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful,…
— William Wilberforce
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I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized,…
— John Green
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each…
— Henrik Ibsen
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
— Fred Brooks
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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.
— Alan Cohen
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To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he…
— B.F. Skinner
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No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
— Rusty Schweickart
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Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned…
— John Hagel III
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I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had…
— Hermann Eilts
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Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If…
— Bill Gates
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Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less…
— Jill Lepore
Who Wrote These Assigned Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 215 Assigned Quotes, led by these top contributors: