Best Assumes Sayings
223 Assumes quotes by 205 unique authors
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a…
— Jack Vance
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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic…
— Grover Cleveland
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.
— James Berardinelli
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We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic…
— Dan Ariely
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What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?
— T.D. Jakes
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I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people…
— Matt Mullenweg
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An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the…
— David Berlinski
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Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if…
— Maurice Jarre
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Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the…
— Stephen Bayley
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Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state…
— Garry Wills
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The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and…
— Herman E. Daly
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community…
— Amy Waldman
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The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed…
— Charles Hodge
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
— Lyman Abbott
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.…
— Laurence Sterne
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How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?
— Reggie McNeal
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A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
— Jimmy Sangster
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I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.
— Cody Horn
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all…
— Pavel Florensky
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Always consider the qualifications of anyone who assumes or professes authority, what do they really know? Authorities on spirituality can rarely give a half coherent…
— Peter J. Carroll
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When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.
— Louise Colet
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The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and…
— Peter Joseph
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To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this…
— Bell Hooks
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