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• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  Ira Glass

  Mean, Air, People

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Shapes, Assumption

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

  Charlotte Ross

  Hate, Character, People

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

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• Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Law, Giving

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Parent, Halt

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

  Fernand Leger

  Understanding, Painting, Dogma

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• I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Democracy, Form

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• Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Men, Osteoporosis, Males

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• But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

  Dave Heineman

  Excellence, Guarantees, Want

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• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Jobs, Real, Work

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• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  George Orwell

  Love, Children, Adults

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

  Melissa Bean

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Acceptance, Tolerance, Form

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• Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Shaving

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• I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Children, Thinking, Only Child

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• I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

  Sophia Bush

  Thinking, People, Glory

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• Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Two Sides, Political, Atheism

  James Harvey Robinson (1921). “The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform”

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• The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

  Peter Straub

  Lying, Yield, Blue

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• If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

  James L. Buckley

  Book, People, Engagement

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• So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

  Steve Forbert

  Moving, Thinking, Feet

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• True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

  R. D. Laing

  People, Guilt, Obligation

  'Self and Others' (1961) ch. 10

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• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

  Piers Anthony

  Princess, Thinking, Rose

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Believe

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• The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Power, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.199, Classic Books Company

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