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• We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

  Eric Hoffer

  Contagious, Generalization

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• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  Vernon Howard

  Emotional, Feelings, Assumption

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• We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Responsibility, People, World

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• I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

  John Mayer

  Writing, Emotional, Needs

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• Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

  Jan de Hartog

  Errors, Political, Making A Difference

  Jan de Hartog (1979). “THE LAMB'S WAR”

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• We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

  Paul Hawken

  Environmental, Use, Way

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• You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.

  Tabitha Soren

  Years, Mtv, News

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• What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Profound, Literature

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• Never ASSUME, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS of U and ME.

  Felix Unger

  Ass, Never Assume

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• Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Eye, Wings, Degrees

  Alfred de Vigny (1923). “Cinq Mars”

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• We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

  Max Planck

  Future, Science, Law

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

  Larry David

  Army, People, Today

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
  Pointing that plastic finger at me,
  Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
  But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Freedom, White, Flags

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Safety, Fool

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• Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

  Albert J. Nock

  Spiritual, Men, Knowing

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• By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

  David Rockefeller

  Mean, Thinking, Museums

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

  Alonzo Church

  Choices, Annoyed, Looks

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• People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

  Diane Sawyer

  People, Shy, Television

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• We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

  Paul Prudhomme

  Trust, Education, Things In Life

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• 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.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Fellow Man, Guilty

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11

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• In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

  Mac Thornberry

  Light, Energy, Goes On

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• It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

  Stanley Fish

  Philosophical, Moral, Conviction

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• It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

  Rose McGowan

  People, Together, Shy

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• I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Giving, Silence

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Cratylus”, p.133, Aeterna Press

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• I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be.

  Garth Ennis

  Writing, Literature, Might

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