Assuming Quotes

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You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. — Howard Rheingold
Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill. — Victor Davis Hanson
If I knew that today would be the last time Iâ€™d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved?… — Nawal El Saadawi
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. — John Rawls
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves… — James A. Baldwin
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest
The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,… — E. M. Forster
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most… — Adam Smith
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to… — William S. Burroughs
The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is… — Utah Phillips
I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is… — Tom Waits
Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer. — Mercedes Lackey
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man… — Ayn Rand
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my… — Flann O'Brien
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,… — Margaret Atwood
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she… — Theodore Dreiser
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a… — Arthur C. Clarke
Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence,… — Clive Barker
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do… — Thomas Sowell

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