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• People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

  Tori Amos

  Artist, Careers, People

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• When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not.

  Michele Bachmann

  Two, Issues, Way

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• Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

  Tony Campolo

  White, America, House

  "The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil era. And that's what we must discuss: searching and developing new sources of energy. And that requires scientific research. That requires investment. And the developed countries must be the ones to assume this responsibility first.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Responsibility, Oil

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• Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Independent, Moon

  "A Consciousness-Based Science" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

  Amy Chua

  Children, Parent, Kind

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• I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Running, New York, Wall

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• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  Rafael Correa

  Power Corrupts, Absolute Power, Experiments

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• The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

  Simon Cowell

  Minutes, Very Happy, Shows

  "Q&A: Simon Cowell". "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2009.

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• What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

  Bryan Cranston

  People, Comedy, Assumption

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 2, 2003.

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• New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.

  Sloane Crosley

  Narcissistic, Habit, Scene

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• The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doctors, People, World

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 17, 1969.

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• People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Running, People, Office

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• Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Strong, Lying, People

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• The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mistake, Thinking, Evil

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• Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Dying, Patient

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.

  James Dobson

  Believe, Choices, President

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• Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

  Tryon Edwards

  Law, Facts, Assumption

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.434, Ravenio Books

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• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  Larry Elder

  War, Stupid, People

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.253, Macmillan

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• I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

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• I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Academic, Feels

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• The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Perfect, Facts

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

  Megan Fox

  People, Hollywood, Fame

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

  Jim Garrison

  Country, Travel, Lying

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• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  William Gibson

  People, Way, Novelists

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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