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ascribed
«I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, morphology, phenomenon, syntax, The Weight, weight
«Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another»
Author: Xenophanes
(Poet)
| Keywords:
adulteries, ascribed, deceiving, disgrace, Hesiod, homer, mortals, stealing
«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 meaning.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
alive, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, The Meaning of Life
«I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, common sense
«And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? / And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.»
«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 one.»
«If any man doth ascribe aught of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright»
«Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Competence
| Keywords:
adequately, ascribe, ascribed, ascribes, explained, incompetence, malice
«It was ascribed to one's past deeds and one's own mental tendencies. It is wrong to cast the blame on others. But, someone pointed out that God was the originator of both joy and grief and that, without His Will, no blade of grass can waver in the wind; Yes; if that Truth be firmly established in the heart, one gets the unique bliss of liberation.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
ascribed, blade, firmly, originator, originators, pointed, tendencies, The Originator, waver
