Assuming Quotes

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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some… — Aaron Scharf
It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then… — Hank Azaria
The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions… — Frances Parkinson Keyes
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new… — Humphry Davy
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took… — Tony Clark
Seeking the pleasure of conjugality without a willingness to assume the responsibilities of rearing a family is one of the onslaughts that now batter at… — David O. McKay
Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures… — Benjamin Franklin
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this. — William Shakespeare
We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. — Neal A. Maxwell
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. — Dorothy Parker
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because… — Ambrose Bierce
"One and one make two" assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this… — Alfred North Whitehead
My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific… — Ray Kurzweil
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort… — James Levine
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if… — Emmet Fox
Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect… — Barack Obama
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects… — Eliphas Levi
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in… — William H. Seward

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