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  All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

  Max Planck

  Inspirational, Science, Intelligent

  "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.

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• If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

  Dora Russell

  Children, Adults, Use

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• One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

  Meir Kahane

  People, Problem, Decent

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• When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

  Louis C. K.

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Pain

  "Fictional character: Louie". "Louie/ Cop Story", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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  practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on
  the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your
  life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are
  capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of
  that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and
  simple.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Kings, Queens, Simple

  Chogyam Trungpa (2005). “The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Responsibility, Adults

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• Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

  Dick Cavett

  Men, People, Finance

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• The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophical, Deputies

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1900). “The Philosophy of History”

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• It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

  James Dobson

  Leadership, Husband, Waiting

  James C. Dobson (2014). “Straight Talk to Men: Timeless Principles for Leading Your Family”, p.165, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

  Jeff Gannon

  Information, Honest, Honestly

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• Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

  Morley Safer

  Order, People, Teeth

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• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

  War, Team, People

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• The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

  Paul Broca

  Inspire, Physicians, Assumption

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• The Lord came to send fire upon the earth (cf. Lk. 12:49), and through participation in this fire He makes divine not just the human substance which He assumed for our sake, but every person who is found worthy of communion with Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Bible, God, Christian

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Missing, Matter

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• I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

  Howard Gardner

  Opportunity, Parent, Environmental

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• People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

  Brian Eno

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

  Al Gore

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Events, Invention

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Style, Roles

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• Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Intelligent, Political

  "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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• Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

  Pat Paulsen

  Country, Circles, Wings

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