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Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right. ↗

— Francois Hollande

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Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

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We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. ↗

— Sally Ride

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You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

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If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned. ↗

— Elizabeth Barton

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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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