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Credited Quotes
On giving credit where it's due.
This set of quotes explores who gets credited for ideas, inventions, and influence, including Benjamin Franklin's credited inventions from the postal system to lightning rods, discussed further under Like quotes.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
- Investment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
- Finances
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- Nov 07, 2020
The revenue stream for Social Security benefits comes from payroll taxes, which are credited to the Social Security Trust Fund - accounting for the program's finances separately from the rest of the budget.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four temples to 50 temples, there was so much work involved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People writing about me have said that I've influenced a lot of people, and there are some artists who have credited me with influencing them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.
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- Nov 07, 2020