Assumed Quotes
439 quotes by 389 authors
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be…
— William Blake
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At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers…
— Mika Brzezinski
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed…
— Alan Alda
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I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.
— Kim Cattrall
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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after…
— Noam Chomsky
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our…
— Grover Cleveland
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I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking…
— Kurt Cobain
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and…
— J. Reuben Clark
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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus,…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done…
— Forbes Burnham
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All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
— David R. Brower
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The Marines fought almost solely on esprit de corps, I was certain. It was inconceivable to most Marines that they should let another Marine down,…
— Robert Sherrod
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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
— George Santayana
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a…
— Ken Robinson
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I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth…
— Alice Walker
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The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be…
— John B. S. Haldane
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