Assuming Quotes
1443 quotes by 1146 authors
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Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars…
— Anne Frank
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It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony…
— R C Sproul
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The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.
— D. A. Carson
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Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature…
— Marcus Aurelius
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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks…
— George Soros
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that…
— Roy Jenkins
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Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks…
— Sergei Dovlatov
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Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived…
— Steven Erikson
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And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.
— Maya Deren
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We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a…
— Jack Vance
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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic…
— Grover Cleveland
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It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is…
— Jack Canfield
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Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By…
— Dan Millman
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives,…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
— Marc Andreessen
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Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the…
— Thomas Nagel
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