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The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing… — Jan Morris
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.… — George Orwell
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that… — Epictetus
Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is… — Robert Anton Wilson
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was… — Thom Gunn
Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon… — Eustace Haydon
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing… — Unknown Author
An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched… — Marcus Aurelius
I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again. — Steve Coogan
There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the… — Noam Chomsky
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. — George Bernard Shaw
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind… — George Orwell
Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses… — Bruce Friedrich
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up… — Nellie Bly
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the… — Ferdinand Christian Baur
People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that,… — Squarepusher
The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed — Simon Barnes
Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general public must be… — John Goodlad
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. — Alan Alda
Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men… — R.J. Rushdoony

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