Best Assumes Quotations
223 Assumes quotes by 205 unique authors
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As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
— Nova Ren Suma
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You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are…
— Frederick Wiseman
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And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new…
— Humphry Davy
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J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because…
— Ambrose Bierce
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"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect…
— Barack Obama
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Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects…
— Eliphas Levi
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It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.
— George Carlin
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Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know…
— Pete du Pont
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Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.
— Maude Barlow
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Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who…
— Russell L. Ackoff
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A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.
— Napoleon Hill
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This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a…
— Laurent Fabius
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when the wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No…
— Jack White
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Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
— William Godwin
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By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of…
— Ben Bagdikian
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power…
— Adrienne Rich
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When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned.…
— Tom Robbins
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You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
— Ray Dalio
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Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have…
— Timothy Keller
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one…
— Albert Camus
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