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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile. -- Marianne Moore
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? -- Charles Baudelaire
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane. -- Richard Perle
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. -- Robert Lanza
Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings. -- Jose Ramos-Horta
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance. -- Vitruvius
We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah. -- Julius Wellhausen
Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. -- Edward Sapir
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. -- Frances Wright
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require. -- Samuel Wilson
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory. -- Edmund White
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. -- H. P. Blavatsky
The National Popular Vote is about getting states to convert from the winner-take-all rule. The states that pass the legislation will assign all their electoral votes to the candidate that got the most votes in the country, not just in the state. -- Tom Golisano
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the lot which it has pleased Providence to assign me. My Husband is so kind! So, in all respects, after my own heart! -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers. -- Bernhard Schlink
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. -- James S. Coleman
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. -- Jerry Saltz
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. -- Jess Walter
I have new bodyguards ever since I got a TV show. I didn't know, but it's a lot like becoming president. They tell you every single secret, like who shot JFK. When you have a TV show, they not only tell you who shot JFK, but they assign you bodyguards. -- Scott Aukerman
When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise. -- Richard Phillips
Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that. -- Alison Sweeney
Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. -- Tony Robbins
When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn. -- Tom Barbash
People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted. -- Daniel Kahneman
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. -- Isaac Newton
People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image -- Colin Fletcher
Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it. -- Terry Eagleton
Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people, -- Ani DiFranco
... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience. -- Susan Sontag
When you hit 'Save' on a spread sheet and you assign a spreadsheet to something, that [stuff] becomes official. -- Geoff Ramsey
It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers. -- Roxane Gay
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed. -- Robert Greene
What happens to us is not as important as the meaning we assign to it. Journaling helps sort this out. -- Michael Hyatt
Nothing is meaningless it's how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future. -- Bill Crawford
All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'. -- Carolyn Hax
...But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know? -- Jill Shalvis
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations -- Winston Churchill
I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. -- David Sedaris
Transformation brings with it the recognition that the meaning we assign to events in the world determines how we react in relation to them. -- Teresa DeCicco
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. -- Harriet Martineau
Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it. -- Klaus Topfer
It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they? -- Julia Quinn
In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color. -- Guido Molinari
Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions. -- Robert Townsend
Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness". -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again. -- David Byrne
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood. -- Socrates
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it -- Walter Chrysler
Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. -- Walter Chrysler
I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The beauty is that you are always free to choose a better future as well as better past. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life. -- Anuranjita Kumar
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position. -- Ludwig von Mises
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant. -- William Pfaff
For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters. -- Mat Johnson
I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh. -- Charles M. Schulz
No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. -- Haruki Murakami
Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and that's something we must work to change. -- Rachel Held Evans
...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values is one that hardly troubles us. -- Richard Hofstadter
A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government. -- Ludwig von Mises
Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage. -- Horace
Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy. -- Bill Gates
To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on. -- Kingsley Amis
To reject wisdom because the person communicates it is uncouth and his manners are inelegant, what is it but to throw away a pine-apple, and assign for a reason the roughness of its coat? -- Thomas Hartwell Horne
I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches. -- Chuck Pierce
There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation. -- Josh Earnest
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else. -- Henry Rollins

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