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• When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when an athlete feels all alone in the big world. Opponents assume tremendous stature. Any runner who denies having fears, nerves or some kind of disposition is a bad athlete, or a liar.

  Gordon Pirie

  Running, Liars, Athlete

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• Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

  L. J. Smith

  People, Vampire, Succeed

  L. J. Smith (2014). “The Vampire Diaries: The Return & The Hunters Collection: The Return: Nightfall, The Return: Shadow Souls, The Return: Midnight, The Hunters: Phantom, The Hunters: Moonsong, The Hunters: Destiny Rising”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? One of the most dangerous and terrifying trends in America today is the disregard for character as a central necessity in a leader's credentials. The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Philosophy, Character

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• One of the things that adds tension to our lives is small frustrations. Losing car keys can give you a panic attack. Not being able to find a comb when you get out of the shower, losing scissors and nail clippers, can make you fight with your roommate. The problem is that we think that these things are not supposed to happen to us. And that's what makes us tense. We think we can avoid these frustrations by making ourselves and others be more careful. I like to take the opposite tack-to assume that these things are a part of life and that they will happen no matter what.

  Jennifer James

  Fighting, Frustration, Thinking

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Hands, Racism

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

  Faith Popcorn

  Future, Waiting, Ready

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.80, BookBaby

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• History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

  Charles Darwin

  Mind, Progress, Skins

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• The biggest political change in my lifetime is that Americans no longer assume that their children will have it better than they did. This is a huge break with the past, with assumptions and traditions that shaped us.

  Peggy Noonan

  Children, Past, Political

  Peggy Noonan (2015). “The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Rights, Rivers

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• Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.

  Neville Goddard

  Law Of Attraction, Feelings, Wish

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Power, Thinking, Divine Right

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• It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that’s a contradiction, then get out of the way.

  Lierre Keith

  Responsibility, Warrior, Thinking

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• Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Business, Technology, Ideas

  "Clean 15 Series: Can Open Innovation Save Canadian Clean Technology?", www.cbj.ca.

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• The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle

  Jamais Cascio

  Future, Ideas, Work Out

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• And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it’s a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don’t find you and your dream utterly revolting.

  Rachel Kushner

  Dream, Mistake, People

  Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they remember it helps no one - least of all the author of the redesign - to assume the worst about the original source and the people who work hard to maintain and improve it, even though those efforts may seem imperfect from the outside.

  Khoi Vinh

  Fun, Hard Work, People

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• Most of us assume we are seeing the world the way it really is.

  Ned Herrmann

  Reality, World, Way

  Ned Herrmann (1996). “The Whole Brain Business Book”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Communication, Reality, Issues

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• I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality.

  Sung Won Sohn

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

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• The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Reality, Principles, Events

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• Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Taken, Reality

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Ambition, Past

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Motivational, Responsibility, Self Confidence

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• Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.

  George Lakoff

  People, Political, Enlightenment

  "Why Liberals Lose". Interview with Katy Butler, katybutler.com. December 24, 2003.

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