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• You teach combat, I guess.” Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?” Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy’s back. “Uh, I don’t know.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Guy, Doe

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• At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Done, Mouths

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• It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

  Jules Verne

  Surprise, Worst, Seems

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• It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.

  Nora Roberts

  Flower, Thinking, Magic

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• It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

  John le Carre

  Lonely, Vanity, People

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• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lazy People, Play, Differences

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).

  Randy Alcorn

  Giving, Income, Looks

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• That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

  Bob Goff

  Way

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• Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love You, Reality, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married By Morning: Number 4 in series”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

  Don Roff

  Creative, Students, Never Assume

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• Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Truth, Loving Someone

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• Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

  Walter Isaacson

  People

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

  Meryl Streep

  Strong, Animal, Men

  "The many Meryls". "60 minutes" with Morley Safer, www.cbsnews.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotic, Fighting, Intelligent

  "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

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• We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Teaching, Sacrifice, Self

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Desire, Hints, May

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• It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

  Eric Hoffer

  Relationship, Money, People

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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• What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

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• If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Responsibility, Conformity

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• The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Weakness

  Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

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• There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Eye, Humanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

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• It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all.

  Gerard J Tellis

  Business, Doe, Needs

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• We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

  Charles Handy

  Educational, Learning, People

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• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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