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"Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining."
"Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time."
"Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend."
"Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming."
"I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume."
"The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it."
"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
"You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior."
"The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many."
"Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened."
"We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future"
"Assume the best but hire paranoid people."
"If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited."
"The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted."
"The past assumes the nature of the present."
"The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place."
"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men."
"If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men."
"To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next."
"Never assume you know where someone else is coming from."
