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• When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Ipods, Chinese

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Lakes

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

  Drake

  Hater, Fake People, Humble

  Song: Best I Ever Had, 2009

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• Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

  Norman Cousins

  Attitude, Responsibility, Quality

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• I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Believe, Men

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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• You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

  Katie Couric

  Kindness, Behavior, Traits

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• When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Two, People

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• I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

  His reason for not playing cricket. Quoted in Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988)

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• There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Mad, Illness

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• It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

  Pierre Loti

  Cat, Winter, Air

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• To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

  Aileen Fisher

  Mistake, Cat, Eye

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• Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspiration, Needs, Knees

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• The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Funny, Money, Gambling

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• The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Clouds, Creative, Mind

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• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Men, Noses

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• Assume a virtue if you have it not.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Assumption, Virtue

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

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• No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Responsibility, Men, Overcoming

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• You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Responsibility, Assumption

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Way, Praying

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life Changing, Thinking, Obligation

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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