Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen. — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as… — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle,… — Martine McCutcheon Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
I assume most people trust me, if they vote for me in elections. And it is the most important thing. It places… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I met the former president of Iceland [Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir] once. I think she was president for, like, 16 years or something. She… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Here I am in a rabbit run, here I am in a valley of pine, waiting for you to find me. I… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Anything, even the conceptually most complex material, can be written for general audiences without any dumbing down. Of course you have to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When you assume you make a you-know-what out of U and me. Yep, so let's stop assuming so much. We are often… — David Leonhardt Copy Share Image
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,… — Sanford Levinson Copy Share Image
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good… — James L. Buckley Copy Share Image
Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami. — Feist Copy Share Image
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise!… — Qiu Jin Copy Share Image
I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The one place where I can relax is on the golf course with my teammates and buddies, assuming I'm hitting the golf… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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