Assuming Quotes

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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it… — Laurie Anderson
You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had… — Monica Ali
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes… — Samuel Alexander
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false… — Herbert Marcuse
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be… — Mary Balogh
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven.… — R C Sproul
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. — Lev Grossman
I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is,… — Terry Gross
I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both… — Armie Hammer
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy… — John Hickenlooper
Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people… — Marvin Hamlisch
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will… — Mindy Kaling
It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather. — Anne Fadiman
You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type. — Cameron Monaghan
Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular… — Antonin Scalia
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. — Dick Cavett
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno
The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless… — Mark Driscoll
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to… — Louis de Broglie
When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win. — Bill Bradley

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