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"You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down."
"The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience."
"No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems."
"Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process."
"We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing."
"We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives."
"Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong."
"Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist."
"For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."
"Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong."
"...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad."
"What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!"
"To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal."
"Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade."
"Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination."
"It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live."
"No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton"
"Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!"
"Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere."
"Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better."
