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• We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

  Shirley Jones

  Watches, Hardship, Easy

  "Celebrity Big Brother: Producer Interview". FemaleFirst Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk.

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• There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case

  Ed Harris

  War, People, Decision

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• Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Community, Political

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• So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

  Harry Reid

  Change, House, Want

  "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Limits

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• The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, People, Rude

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• The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.

  Richard Stallman

  Running, Jobs, Race

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

  Dave Barry

  Girly, Simple, Men

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• All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

  Theodore Bikel

  Strong, Humility, Justice

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• An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Mistake, Fall

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Band, Reason

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Honor, Tragedy

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• As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Integrity, Hypocrite, Evil

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Believe, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Truth, Angel, Men

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

  Famke Janssen

  Dark, Men, Phoenix

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• But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life

  Angela Davis

  Years, Differences, Victory

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• I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Discipline, Design, Problem

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

  Francoise Sagan

  Eye, Reality, Two

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.

  Benjamin Tucker

  People, Principles, Band

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

  Hugh Hopper

  Giving, Musician, Wonderful

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• On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Moving On, Molecules, Moved On

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• If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

  Rick Derringer

  Growing Up, Kids, Musical

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• They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

  Patricia Richardson

  Mom, Mother, Wisdom

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

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