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Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the… — Carl Sagan
In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out… — Neil Gaiman
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to task. The power… — Bryce Courtenay
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being… — William Shakespeare
Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like… — John Green
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on… — Philip K. Dick
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept… — Bell Hooks
our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good. — Madeleine L'Engle
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own… — Susan Sontag
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something. — Brandon Sanderson
That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself. — Bob Goff
Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature… — Eleanor Roosevelt
New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s… — Bill Maher
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he… — James F. Cooper
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. — Walter Bagehot
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is… — Pearl S. Buck
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman
The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure -… — Martin Filler
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her… — Giordano Bruno
I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out. — Michael Spiller
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals… — Susan Estrich
The Bible nowhere enters into an argument to prove the person and being of God. It assumes His being and reveals His person and character. — Edward McKendree Bounds

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