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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its… — John Cage
• Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence… — Mahatma Gandhi
• A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created. — Napoleon Hill
• Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent… — Antonin Scalia
• The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who… — Jean Giraudoux
• Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison
• It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global… — Paul Davies
• It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can… — Neil Gaiman
• Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag
• Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in… — Lorrie Moore

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