Assumes Quotes
223 quotes by 205 authors
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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
— Dean Acheson
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Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be…
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet.…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers…
— Jerry Bridges
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
— William Shakespeare
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English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as…
— James Anthony Froude
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed…
— Dan Barker
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay…
— John Cage
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
— Felix Morley
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did…
— Primo Levi
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Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
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Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
— Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has…
— Aldo Leopold
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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own…
— Ayn Rand
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