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"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them."
"In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities."
"Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?"
"If you never assume importance, you never lose it."
"A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created."
"I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me."
"Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them."
"Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's."
"Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power."
"We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises."
"The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements."
"I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness."
"The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."
"To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption."
"Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do."
"You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled."
"Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that."
"The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe."
"I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you."
"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction."
