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Letter "A" » attributing
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
| Keywords:
accord, attributing, characteristic, coincidence, coincidences, conclusive, Correspondences, drastically, frequency, prime, significance, sorts, tendency, too little, underestimate
«Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.»
Author: Katharine Graham
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
attribute, attributing, considered, in fact, masculine
«One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion»
«There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
attribute, attributing, evils, free will, of his own, tendency
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
affluent, ascend, ascends, attributed, attributing, beings, descends, existence, existence of God, human beings, interesting, material, meanest, poorest, responsibility, scale, scaled, scaling, standard, style, the existence of God
«Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Leadership,
Management,
Solution,
Speech
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, defined, liked, Speeches
«Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
adults, attributed, attributing, formerly, imaginary, imaginary being, The Dead
«Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
attributing, avoids, cleverness, else, enemy, somebody, Somebody else, usually
«Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Mankind,
Problems
| Keywords:
attributing, environment, In the Realm, morals, realm
«The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, common, common sense, hundred, list, listed, Lists of, List of, my list, number, The Last, the list, The New Yorker, top
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