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Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume that their teachers will regard those topics as 'stupid.' No area of life is stupid to someone who takes it seriously. If you follow your affections you will write well and will engage your readers.”

Ifs Writing Wells Heart Life Is Teacher Subjects Stupid Students Reader Areas Regard Assuming Affection Permission Topics

Author:William Zinsser

“Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Seems Lonely Assuming Strikes Good Day

Author:William Zinsser

“People probably assume I sleep in my uniform. Then I get up and go to the mall or the market in my uniform.”

People Sleep Assuming Get Up Uniforms Malls

Author:Sue Bird

“New technologies make it possible for even the mass marketer to assume the role of a small proprietor, doing business again wit individuals, one at a time.”

Individual Roles Technology Mass Assuming Wit New Technology Marketers

Author:Don Peppers

“We all assume the worst the best we can.”

Worst Assuming

Author:Iron & Wine

“In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.”

Believe Courses Pleasure Principles Taken Events Theory Assuming Finals Productions Analysis Outcomes Tension Avoidance Hesitation Psycho

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.”

Wells May Seems Perfect Audience Circumstances Assuming Advertising Receptive Advertising Business Never Assume

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Perfection in wisdom, as well as in integrity, is neither required nor expected in these agents (public servants). It belongs not to man. The wise know too well their weaknesses to assume infallibility; and he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.”

Knows Men Wells Littles Wise Integrity Weakness Perfection Assuming Expected Agents Servant Public Servants Infallibility

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?”

“After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man.”

Source: The Devil's Notebook

“No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.”

Way Reason Understood Assuming No Reason

Book:The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

Source: The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

“We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.”

World Simple Authority Consequence Assuming Realization Competence American Life Good Faith

Author:Chris Hayes

“Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.”

Knows World Believe Answers Absolutes Assuming Gray Arrogant Cowardly Playoff Games

Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“I like to assume that since I drive a car and maintain a respectable credit rating and rarely murder anyone and bury them in the back garden unless they really deserve it, that the fact that I hear voices wont unduly disturb anyone.”

Facts Voice Car Deserve Garden Murder Assuming Credit Respectable Rating

Author:Robin McKinley

“One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language”

Language Understanding Assuming

Author:Louis Pasteur

“If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.”

Ifs Looks Attitude Quality Proud Increase Assuming Humble Dues Unhappiness Jealous Good Quality

Author:Dalai Lama

“Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.”

Way Kind Matter Dark Assuming Planes Milky Way Dark Matter

Author:Lisa Randall

“You know if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably gonna put your children out of the way. Doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination.”

Ifs Knows Way Mean Children Running Hate Imagination Dog Our Children Assuming Your Children Neighborhood

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I think, a lot of times, directors assume that whatever they get from you the first time, whether it be at an audition or on set, is all that you can bring.”

Thinking Firsts Directors First Time Assuming Auditions

Author:Zoe Kazan

“What's crazy to me is that people now assume I'm behind [hip-hop] tracks that other people are putting out. They're just sitting on the edge of their chair waiting for me to put out [rap beats]. But it's not going to happen. I've graduated from that.”

People Happens Waiting Behinds Crazy Beats Sitting Assuming Edges Track Hip Hop Rap Hips Chairs Hops Sitting On The Edge

Author:AraabMuzik

“People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.”

People I Can States Literature Assuming Complaining Contemporary Contemporary Literature

Author:Laura Miller

“The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.”

People Ifs Littles Sometimes Feelings Song Reflection Assuming Tricky New Songs

Author:Richard Marx

“In primary school in south-eastern Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt. I learned the same thing in secondary school. In university, Mubarak was still president of Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously, that he - and others like Paul Biya in Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya - would never leave.”

Stills School President Taught Assuming South University Primaries Egypt Eastern Nigeria Libya Primary School Gaddafi Secondary School Mubarak Cameroon Muammar Gaddafi

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question of whether our shortcomings, brought to light by 9/11, could have been a result of too much government.”

Has Beens Light Government Action Results Too Much Assuming Raised Could Have Been Shortcomings

Author:Ron Paul

“Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.”

People Facts Lying Order Records Skills Lays Assuming Selling Buying Shops Mail Virgins

Author:Richard Branson

“To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.”

Next Loses Generations Assuming

Author:D. A. Carson

“Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.”

Knows Energy Difficult Secret Leader Team Building Guilt Assuming Guilty Closest End Times Difficult Times Trustworthy Time And Energy Building A Team

Author:Andy Stanley

“You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.”

May Ignorance Infinite Assuming Unlimited

Author:Leo Szilard

“Why is it that we have a tendency to lazily assume other Christians have been the kind of dedicated, motivated, responsible, knowledgeable experts on Bible doctrines that we have never cared enough to become?”

Kind Has Beens Enough Christian Responsible Assuming Doctrine Tendencies Experts Motivated Dedicated Knowledgeable

Author:Len Smith

“Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.”

Two Would Be Film Thousand Thirds Assuming Colour Exposed Venture Ruined Spoiled Loaded Cassettes Cartier Monochrome

Author:Philip Jones Griffiths

“When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.”

Quiet Assuming Introvert Snobbish

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my inabilities in the way of thought are inabilities of the universe. I therefore define truth as the system of my limitations, and leave absolute truth for those who are better equipped.”

Way Believe Mean Helping Universe Absolutes Assuming Limitation Venture Inability Absolute Truth

Author:Learned Hand

“In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.”

Film Moving Used Steps Hell Six Assuming Eight Drawing Thirty Forty Pace Timing Sheer Rapids Sneak Animator Tiptoes Single Step Forty Eight

Author:Chuck Jones

“Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.”

Bigs Film Names Stars Stage Television Hollywood Assuming Handle Producers Posts Broadway Film Stars Marquee

Book:My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away

Source: My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away

“No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.”

“Why do people think the spiritual life demands withdrawal from the ordinary? Because they've been taught, at least by implication, that the physical is a block to the spiritual. When we assume that the spiritual, unlike the physical, is impervious to corrosion, then we assume that all things material are not to be honored. But the fact of the matter is, the material is the vehicle of the spiritual.”

People Thinking Matter Facts Spiritual Taught Materials Demand Ordinary All Things Assuming Block Spiritual Life Vehicle Honored Implications Withdrawal Impervious

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.”

Kind Sound Pleasure Assuming Occasions Surfing Too Deep

Author:Kelly Slater

“What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue, it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't pursue it.”

Wells Known Virtue Holy Assuming Rewards Pursue Like Love Holy Grail Courtiers Commoners Aliases

Author:Stephen Birmingham

“It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another-his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important: do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you'd never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him do unto him as you would have him do unto you.”

“Intention implies assuming you can and have every right to achieve your ambition and that you are powerful enough to make it happen.”

Enough Happens Powerful Achieve Ambition Assuming Intention Make It Happen

Author:Gloria Feldt

“Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'”

Knows Firsts Looks I Can Know How Weak Assuming Contact Vain Glances Lenses Showing Off Surf Swans Spectacles Piglet Contact Lenses

Author:Greg Proops

“The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.”

Different Done Church Assuming Testament New Testament

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself”

People Assuming Stem Collecting True Happiness Collecting Things

Author:Dalai Lama

“If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.”

People Care Mistake Agree Assuming Disagree Criteria Cognitive

Author:Megan McArdle

“Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume which really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.”

Children Forget Teach Laughing Opposites Assuming Implications

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.”

Self Term Color Wind Assuming Males Contradiction Pacific Roger Pacifist Jolly

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.”

Source: Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed

“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... He will assume control of your cities, states and nations. He is going to move in and take over your churches, schools, universities, and corporations ... The fate of humanity is in his hands.”

Children Persons States Hands School Moving Humanity Nations Church Cities Fate Assuming University Corporations Over You

Author:Abraham Lincoln

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