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439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the… — Isaac Newton
In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if… — Tricia Helfer
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will… — Mindy Kaling
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to… — William Eggleston
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted… — Andrew Jackson
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it… — Lysander Spooner
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most… — Charlton Laird
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. — Peter Shepherd
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. — Charley Reese
Not only was Dan Cooper likely an alias, but many people suspected at the time were people living under assumed names. The '50s and '60s… — Geoffrey Gray
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget. — William Faulkner
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated… — Bergen Evans
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to… — Martin Henderson
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his… — Walter J. Phillips
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods. — Thomas Aquinas
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. — Taliesin
There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more… — Norman Vincent Peale
By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a woman, men hoped… — Frederick Lenz
When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2… — Bjorn Ulvaeus
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… — Henry Adams
In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks… — Clarence John Laughlin
Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the… — Julie Berry
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. — Jean de la Bruyere

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