Best Assume Sayings
1290 Assume quotes by 1021 unique authors
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There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
— William Shakespeare
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No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath,"…
— Richard J. Foster
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
— Edward de Bono
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I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.
— Hilary Duff
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History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to…
— Bruce Schneier
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
— Douglas Adams
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the…
— Loren Eiseley
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows…
— John Quincy Adams
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
— Seneca the Younger
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due…
— John Herschel
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Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
— Bertrand Russell
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I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life…
— Antony Hewish
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Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt…
— Ronald Reagan
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The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
— Thomas Jefferson
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May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology…
— Lionel Tiger
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers…
— Alan Greenspan
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