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«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(Actor, Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
| Keywords:
attributed, longevity, nights, ninety, reckon, reckons, Sat, slept, twinkle, twinkling, worried
«Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India»
Author: Ludwig von Schroder
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attributed, derived, doctrines, India, mathematical, philosophical, Pythagoras
«If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)»
Author: Theodore Dreiser
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
attributed, bandage, bandaged, bandages, bloody, circumstance, invented, personally, protect
«After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
attributed, essentially, historical, historical sense, International, national, The International
«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
«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
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Childhood,
Cruelty,
Habit,
Instinct,
Memory,
Men,
Youth
| Keywords:
attributed, extract, inherited, shown, thoughtlessness
«I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.»
«The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
attributed, in question, subordinated