"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"
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"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts."
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"One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent."
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"If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!"
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"Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer."
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"I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist."
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"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts."
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"The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good."
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"It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise."
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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."
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"The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?"
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"As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form."
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"Never assume you understand. Ask the questions."
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"A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven."
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"Why assume that to look is to see?"
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"Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people."
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"Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be."
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"We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it."
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"Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won."
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"Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance."
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