It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities. — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation. — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dr. King's policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
