Assuming Quotes
1443 Assuming quotes by 1124 unique authors
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Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the…
— Hans Kung
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People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.—or America.
— Isabel Lucas
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I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use…
— Judy Blume
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
— Fernand Leger
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Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of…
— Urie Bronfenbrenner
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The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to…
— Neal Stephenson
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I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
— Adam Clarke
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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which…
— Robert Greene
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You…
— Robert Greene
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France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
— Nicolas Sarkozy
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Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.
— Roger Cotes
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I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore,…
— Umberto Eco
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But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you…
— Barack Obama
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Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives…
— Stephen Covey
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Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
— Ludwig von Mises
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We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that…
— Mitch Daniels
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
— Victoria Woodhull
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