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Lines about tracing outcomes back to their real cause.

These quotes use 'attributable' to assign credit and blame across very different subjects, from crediting a Federal Reserve appointment for taming inflation to tracing osteoporosis risk back to women's physiology. Each one insists on a direct, specific cause rather than blaming everything at once.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Nov 07, 2020

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.

Quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Nov 07, 2020

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

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Nov 07, 2020

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Quotes by Bob Woodward

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Nov 07, 2020

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Nov 07, 2020

The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous act, hiring a Federal Reserve chair, with the charge to induce a recession. That recession was probably the reason he didn't win a second term.

A more political line ties the slow unraveling of a scandal to one figure's lying and stonewalling, noting it took 26 months before the truth would come to light. Another treats freedom's downsides as attributable to the same forces that produce its benefits, showing cause and effect cutting both ways.

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