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439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption… — Pope Gregory VII
I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed… — Michele Gorman
Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established… — Tom Lantos
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. — Elihu Root
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from… — Elwyn Brooks White
MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had… — Loretta Swit
It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases… — Hans Selye
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Madonna Kolbenschlag suggest that if an awakened woman forgoes innocence and denial, if she refuses to make compromises with herself and defect to patriarchy, then… — Sue Monk Kidd
He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own… — Eric Hoffer
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front.… — Sergei Prokofiev
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I… — Joseph Kanon
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. — Thomas Browne
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a… — David J
We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free… — Michael Crichton
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really… — Huston Smith
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal… — Alex Kingston
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band… — Steve Albini
Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions… — John F. Kennedy
My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed… — George Orwell
I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen… — Tracy Chapman

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