Assuming Quotes

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If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind… — John Galt
Challenge everything, assume nothing. — Sergio Zyman
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things… — Vance Palmer
Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such… — Edward Hirsch
The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in… — Wyndham Lewis
Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the… — Fabio Novembre
If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not… — Peter York
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by… — Barbara Ehrenreich
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real… — Charles Caleb Colton
So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality.… — Peter Shepherd
When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing… — Christiane Northrup
To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake,… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat. — Julia Duffy
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser… — Thomas Dubay
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world… — David Graeber
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community… — Charles Rangel
The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood… — James Clerk Maxwell
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the PhÃ¦nomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. — Isaac Newton

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