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The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,… — Lenny Bruce
Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its… — Hannah Arendt
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong… — Wendell Berry
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. — Martin Amis
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do… — J. William Fulbright
If this is the only life, then everything assumes too great an importance. We have to get everything out of life and we overdo it. — Frederick Lenz
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan
The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the… — I F Stone
If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and… — Nancy Gibbs
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants… — David Gallagher
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it… — Laurie Anderson
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes… — Samuel Alexander
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false… — Herbert Marcuse
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular… — Antonin Scalia
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind… — John Galt
If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not… — Peter York
The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood… — James Clerk Maxwell
The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power,… — Edward F Edinger
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. — Josh Billings
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain...… — Jean Giraudoux
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as… — Hannah Arendt
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has… — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding… — James Madison

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