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1. -- Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the 12 Minor Prophets ascribe themselves to the scribes whose name the Book bears

2. -- Proverbs and Song of Solomon ascribe themselves to Solomon

3. -- Epistles of Paul ascribe themselves, with the exception of Hebrews, to Paul

4. I raise this point for the benefit of anthropomorphists (sic) who (inexplicably) ascribe (human) qualities to Nature

5. It was hard to ascribe emotions to facial expressions in a totally alien race

6. And those who guilt to the innocent ascribe

7. 21 And this was an occasion to deceive the world, for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe to stones and stocks the

8. 17 I profited in it, therefore will I ascribe glory to him who gives me wisdom

9. ' And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azezel hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness, and make an opening in the desert, which is in Dedeel, and throw him in it; And place on him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there forever, and cover his face that he may 6, 7 not see light; And on the day of the great judgement he shall be thrown into the fire; And heal the Earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the healing of the Earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons; And the whole Earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azezel: to him ascribe all sin

10. the self to which you ascribe ignorance and illusion and your

11. ' And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azezel hand and foot and throw him into the darkness and make an opening in the desert which is in Dedeel and throw him in it; And place on him rough and jagged rocks and cover him with darkness and let him abide there forever and cover his face that he may 6 7 not see light; And on the day of the great judgement he shall be thrown into the fire; And heal the Earth which the angels have corrupted and proclaim the healing of the Earth that they may heal the plague and that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons; And the whole Earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azezel: to him ascribe all sin

12. For this reason one can ascribe more than symbolic significance to the decision of four gifted New Englanders to pursue advanced studies at Göttingen University

13. So now their work is so secret they can not be identified just as the scribes of the Pentateuch can no longer be identified even by the Jews so they ascribe it to Moses as it was secretly taken by the scribes from the 'real books' and words of the prophets! Parts of the Book of Jasher can be seen copied straight into the Pentateuch even other writings are seen quoted there

14. Because of basic ignorance of economics, people tend to ascribe all improvements in economic conditions to the progress of the natural sciences and technology

15. of this year’s work has been, and what dimension we can ascribe it to

16. Of course, for some strange reason, they always seem to ascribe to you human attributes

17. All too often there has prevailed a tendency to ascribe to God the responsibility for everything which ignorant man fails to understand

18. Let me utter a solemn warning to you who would presume, with your eyes open and with premeditated malice, knowingly to ascribe the works of God to the doings of devils! Verily, verily, I say to you, all your sins shall be forgiven, even all of your blasphemies, but whosoever shall blaspheme against God with deliberation and wicked intention shall never obtain forgiveness

19. Who this distinction to the sex ascribe,

20. His words always rang in their ears, and in their hearts; “ Slay those who ascribe divinity to

21. Ascribe the incidents to soccer fans celebrating a win in some match or other

22. Something about the real truth though, is kinda hypnotic—compelling all who ascribe to it to butt their heads against the never-yielding stone walls of their fellow humans’ impregnable brains

23. an Absolute or Infinitely existing Creative Mental Power, is it fair to ascribe speaking lines to this

24. Majority opinion does not ascribe rightness or goodness

25. Other than that, there are the old narrative books such as the story of Saif Ibn Yazan, and of Hamza Al-Bahlawan, and other tales from The Thousand And One Nights, which are all illusive tales that ascribe agency to magicians and publicize sorcery

26. They never ascribe action to themselves at all, nor do they direct people anywhere other than to God and His messenger (cpth)

27. adjective you may wish to ascribe to it

28. You ascribe the Higgs particle (boson) to these particles, which is yet the only particle you “caught”, to be more exact, which you yet try to “catch”

29. he hesitated to ascribe preternatural attributes to the

30. even if he had been disposed, ascribe, in the teeth of

31. that army, it was natural that they should ascribe some

32. Ascribe: The act of adding words by writing, your own thoughts or something that is heard or seen

33. Unfortunately, humans ascribe almost exclusively to this first kind of value

34. � If we ascribe to the well known clich� of the "terrible twos," we will choose to see this "No" as a kind of shocking insubordination, a betrayal of the previous child/parent relationship and a violation of the authority of that parent

35. � All of these qualities we can ascribe to the becoming self which remains the positive core of our essential being of our whole being

36. What motive would you ascribe to a young man eloping with an older woman if not that suggested by Dr Wilson?”

37. All so-called philosophies and schools of thought that ascribe virtue to hidden

38. That the world is to be converted is evident from many Scriptures; but they ascribe it principally to other causes, and not, as our opponents will have, entirely to the preaching of the Gospel

39. But what strikes one as particularly strange is that while they deal in extravagant eulogies, and ascribe all manner of imaginary ideas and qualities to Cervantes, they show no perception of the quality that ninety-nine out of a hundred of his readers would rate highest in him, and hold to be the one that raises him above all rivalry

40. They roused them up, and bade them get the horses ready, as at sunrise they were to engage in a bloody and arduous single combat; at which intelligence Sancho was aghast and thunderstruck, trembling for the safety of his master because of the mighty deeds he had heard the squire of the Grove ascribe to his; but without a word the two squires went in quest of their cattle; for by this time the three horses and the ass had smelt one another out, and were all together

41. The intent of initial programming can be changed and it’s fatally easy to make anthropomorphic mistakes: to ascribe human characteristics to machines and misunderstand what drives them inherently

42. ‘There, you always ascribe base, vile motives to me,’ she said with tears of wounded pride and fury

43. But people on the stage are not so modest as all that; and I think that I shall not be far from the truth if I ascribe her action simply to fear

44. But look, I am not here to defend shorts or ascribe blame for the 2008 collapse of the financials

45. Investors often ascribe to managerial prowess what could be the residue of favorable conditions (or simply of good luck)

46. 4 This may be taken as a rather disquieting sign that stock prices have been growing more irrationally sensitive to temporary fluctuations in business—a fact that we are inclined to ascribe to the disappearance of the old-line distinctions between stock investors and stock speculators

47. While a market direction model may seem like a “timing model,” we do not ascribe that term to it, since it does not adequately describe our approach in using such a model

48. They ascribe the glory of that achievement of genius to different men and dispute as to whom the honor is due

49. I would not ascribe vice to him; I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea, and from his presence I must go:

50. I don't ascribe to that at all, so in some cases we have some convincing to do

51. We don't ascribe to the view you shouldn't meet with management to avoid being “sold

52. While there are clearly common elements in how investors ascribe value, we've been struck over time by the variety of valuation measures they utilize and how they approach and answer the question, “What's cheap enough?”

53. If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou Just Spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; bear me out in it, O God!

54. Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause

55. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;—Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them; but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it

56. I noticed several angry irritated looks from her, but for the first moment I did not know to what to ascribe them, besides I was carried away by the conversation

57. I was completely at a loss to what to ascribe such emotion in her, an emotion which I never should have suspected

58. “You ascribe it to Davoust, do you?”

59. However, of course you value the memory of the deceased so very highly; and he certainly was the kindest of men; to which fact, by the way, I ascribe, more than to anything else, the success of the abbot in influencing his religious convictions

60. In spite of the unceasing efforts made by men in power to conceal this and to ascribe a different meaning to power, power is the application of a rope, a chain, by which a man will be bound and dragged along, or of a whip, with which he will be flogged, or of a knife, an axe, with which they will cut off his hands, feet, ears, head,—an application of these means, or a threat that they will be used

61. Not only is the circle of men, from which the servants of the government and the rich men are chosen, growing all the time smaller and smaller, and more and more debased, but these men themselves no longer ascribe to the positions which they hold their former significance, and frequently, being ashamed of them, to the disadvantage of the cause which they serve, neglect to carry out what by their position they are called upon to do

62. But the intoxication experienced by men under such phenomena as are parades, imperial receptions, church solemnities, coronations, is a temporary and acute condition; there are also other, chronic, constant conditions of intoxication, which are equally experienced by all men who have any power, from the power of the emperor to that of a policeman in the street, and by men who submit to power and who are in a condition of intoxication through servility, and who in justification of this their condition always ascribe, as has always shown itself in the case of slaves, the greatest significance and dignity to him whom they obey

63. Whoever you, the reader of these lines, may be, think of your condition and of your duties,—not of the condition of landowner, merchant, judge, emperor, president, minister, priest, soldier, which people temporarily ascribe to you, nor of those imaginary duties, which these positions impose upon you, but of that real, eternal condition of existence, which by somebody's will after a whole eternity of non-existence has issued forth from unconsciousness, and at any moment by somebody's will may return to where you come from

64. But the intoxication to which men succumb under conditions like parades, pageants, religious ceremonies, and coronations, though acute, is not enduring, while there is another which is chronic, shared by all who have any authority whatsoever, from the Czar to the policemen on the street, shared, too, by the masses who submit to authority in a state of stupefied servility, and who by way of justifying their submission, after the usual manner of slaves, ascribe the greatest importance and dignity to those whom they obey

65. Secondly, owing to that importance which art and science ascribe to themselves, they have established a very clear standard by means of which we are able to determine whether they do, or do not, fulfil their destiny; and we therefore decide, not without proofs, but according to their own standard, whether that activity which calls itself art and science has, or has not, any right thus to call itself

66. Véra, judging only by her husband and generalizing from that observation, supposed that all men, though they understand nothing and are conceited and selfish, ascribe common sense to themselves alone

67. It would seem that not much consideration was needed to reach this conclusion, nor any particular care or trouble on the part of the Emperor and his marshals, nor was there any need of that special and supreme quality called genius that people are so apt to ascribe to Napoleon; yet the historians who described the event later and the men who then surrounded Napoleon, and he himself, thought otherwise

68. When we do not at all understand the cause of an action, whether a crime, a good action, or even one that is simply nonmoral, we ascribe a greater amount of freedom to it

69. I ascribe this misunderstanding to the abominable calumny, envy and ill-will of those whom I may justly stigmatize as my bitterest foes

70. If this be the case, it results, sir, that we must ascribe to the operation of that measure the loss our country now so greatly feels

71. As well might you ascribe to that cause the failures of Amsterdam and Hamburg, of London and Liverpool

72. Madison, to which I ascribe my conviction, has been recently presented to us in the newspapers, and gentlemen must be familiar with it

73. I do not recollect a case under the British Government, where for fifty years it has been exercised, and I trust we shall not ascribe to ourselves an indisposition to the correct discharge of those functions which have been correctly exercised or rather not exercised at all for fifty years by the British Government

74. Speaker, I regret that the gentleman from Virginia should ascribe to gentlemen of the West, a disposition for war, with a view to raise the price of their hemp; or to the gentlemen of the North, with a view to raise the price of their beef and flour

75. They all ascribe his conduct to various motives, but none believe him to be in earnest

76. To this circumstance, and a heavy swell which was on at the time, I ascribe the unusual length of the action

77. Lord Hailes, who says that “William was personally acquainted with Becket, when there was little probability of his ever becoming a confessor, martyr and saint,” endeavoring to discover a motive for the munificence of the Scottish King, continues to say: “Perhaps it was meant as a public declaration that he did not ascribe his disaster at Alnwick to the ill-will of his old friend

78. Penrose in an interesting paper read before the British School at Athens in the spring of 1891, setting forth the results of his latest investigations at the Olympieum, said that in the course of his investigations there appeared foundations which he could ascribe to no other building than this most ancient temple