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What I donâ€™t like are arrogant people. Weâ€™re all equal. I donâ€™t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a… — Selena
Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our… — David Emerald Womeldorff
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and… — John Kenneth Galbraith
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from… — Horace Bushnell
Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion,… — Laozi
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're… — Zadie Smith
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would… — Thomas Jefferson
For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the… — George Washington
There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder… — Annie Leibovitz
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel… — Elliott Smith
Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food… — Stephan Pastis
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.… — Jhumpa Lahiri
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescensionâ€”the attitude that they are inferior to you. I… — Mark Van Doren
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of â€˜destiny,â€™ you not only change its â€˜natural lawsâ€™ but also the… — Hannah Arendt
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save… — Hannah Arendt
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement. — Malcolm Lowry
I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming.… — Rush Limbaugh

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