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“It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.”

Source: Shibumi: A Novel

“As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Whatever you habitually think sinks into the subconscious. The subconscious is the seat of the emotions and is a creative mind. Once subconscious accepts an idea, it begins to execute it. Whatever you feel is true, your subconscious will accept and bring forth into experience.”

Thinking Feels Mind Believe Ideas Body Emotion Accepting Creative Environment Conscious Assuming Your Body Being True Seats Subconscious Reap Subconscious Mind Conscious Mind Creative Mind

Author:Jane Roberts

“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”

Matter Used Challenges Events Messages Negative Assuming Optimistic Silver Significance Bad Things Difficult Times Synchronicity Celestine Prophecy

Book:The celestine prophecy: an adventure

Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure

“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”

Mean Doe Hard Use Belief Talking Vision Audience Figures Normal Draws Blind Assuming Hearing Shock Relax Grotesque

Book:Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge

Source: Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge

“When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.”

Wells Ideas Might Jobs Night Hate House Personality Assuming Video Broke Pounds Locked Every Night New Ideas Depressing Fifteen Overweight

Author:Douglas Coupland

“One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.”

Thinking Parent Position Taught Grateful Assuming Be Grateful

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.”

“What is the point? We assume that every time we do anything we know what the consequences will be, i.e., more or less what we intend them to be. This is not only not always correct. It is wildly, crazily, stupidly, cross-eyed-blithering-insectly wrong!”

Knows Consequence Crosses Assuming

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.”

Two Age Talent Months Thirds Assuming Candidates Leisure Two Months Authorship Marlowe

Author:Bill Bryson

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”

People Life Trying Situation Behavior Ordinary Assuming Smallest Ordinary People Disagreeable Expenditures

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”

Needs Mean Purpose Suffering Grace Color Depends Tragedy Assuming Notion Incredibles Accomplish Facets Unspeakable Shack Shack Book

Author:William P. Young

“Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian".”

Source: Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Christ's Teachings about Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”

Ifs World Opportunity Freedom Courage Possibility Assuming Instinct Guarantees No Hope Guarantees That Opportunity To Change

Book:Latin America: from colonization to globalization

Source: Latin America: from colonization to globalization

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”

Source: Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”

May Has Beens Sometimes Able Friendship Simple Sadness Comfort Quiet Difficulty Remains Assuming Simplicity Assumption Emo

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.”

Universe Increase Assuming Ill Admire Esteem Adore Never Assume

Author:John Adams

“I assume I don't need an introduction.”

Needs Assuming Introduction

Author:Anne Rice

“If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking I'm straight. I've worked hard to be discriminated against as a lesbian”

Ifs Thinking World Hard Sick Assuming Passing Passings

Book:Stone Butch Blues

Source: Stone Butch Blues

“I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?”

Men Said Different President Christ Race Color Skins Assuming Righteous Disciple Remarks Priesthood Different Colors Disparaging

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.”

People Thinking Ideas Problem Used Certain Fun Responsibility Risk Assuming Patterns Conquer Perceive Bullying Dictator Associates Will Power Provinces Recalcitrant

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”

People Simple Cases Assuming Wicked Naive Hearted

Book:The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”

Source: A River Runs Through It

“Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom”

Way Fate Assuming Fruit Winter Bored Immortal Gloom Tedious Sour Ennui Limping

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.”

Looks Beautiful Assuming

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”

Way Heart Fear Dark Darkness Assuming Bewildered

Author:Tana French

“If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.”

Ifs Should Assuming Satan Divinity Attributes

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.”

Assuming Caught Lions

Book:TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more

Source: TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more

“To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.”

Mean Culture Speak Support Civilization Weight Assuming Phenomenon Syntax Morphology

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

Knows Quality Assuming Temptation Judgement

Book:Dark Horse

Source: Dark Horse

“Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.”

Littles Said Dream Felt Hours Dark Existence Approach Conscious Aspect Embrace Assuming Wave Landscape Insecurity Little Things Grey Drank Dreary Procession Dark Hours

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.”

Said I Can Emotion Assuming Mortals Jace

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again.”

People Ifs May Facts Asks Parent Growing Up Growing Drink Normal Assuming Dear Arguing Cups Bother Chalice Irreligion

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.”

People Looks Earth Lines Walks Half Draws Down And Assuming Miles Boundaries Maps Fascinated Imaginary Relevance Imaginary Lines

Author:Neil Gaiman

“What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British royalty. (And, if by chance you are, then let me say, “Hello, Your Majesty! Welcome to my stupid book. Can I borrow some cash?”)”

Ifs Mean Book Happens Chance Lord Doubt Stupid Honor Let Me Assuming British Welcome Cash Hello Royalty Majesty

Book:The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

Source: The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

“Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.”

Light Reading Heaven Amount Bed Pages Assuming Coffee Sheets Spilling Cognac

Author:Stephen King

“She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.”

Moments Seems Waiting Lines Known Talent Skills Assuming Guides Shakes Pencils Invitations Deep Inside Fingertips

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.”

Mind Body Grows Loneliness Wall Drug Solitude Assuming Possession Your Body Muscles Nerves Requirements Veins Mind And Body Narcotics Loneliness And Solitude

Book:A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel

Source: A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel

“The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.”

Power Shapes Devil Assuming Memorable Hamlet And Ophelia Hamlet 2

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that the Fool will fall. But we don't see it happen, and a Fool doesn't know that he's subject to the laws of gravity. Against all odds, he just might float.”

People Knows Men Might Happens Law Young Fall Steps Air Subjects Fool Empty Assuming Young Man Gravity Odds Floats Cliffs Deck Tarot Against All Odds

Book:Butcher Bird

Source: Butcher Bird

“The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world”

Ifs World Doe Real Evil Asks Answers Behinds Existence Crosses Overcoming Responsible Guilt Assuming Arise Fallen Sinner Reconciliation Theological Fallen World

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?" "Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert," Iggy said truthfully.”

Trying Wells Doe Said Hands Groups Walking Assuming Shoes Following Stealing Irony Shirts Foreheads Dessert Liability

Author:James Patterson

“Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.”

“One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.”

Knows Men Wells Looks May Children Littles Home Joy Interest Wife Minutes Ordinary Fellows Assuming Affair Practicals Elsewhere Trusted One Minute Jogging Live And Let Live

Book:Howards End

Source: Howards End

“..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.”

People Believe Culture Belief Chance Results Practice Conditions Habit Assuming Response Inevitable Interfere Norm

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.”

Ends Might Lasts Fall Games Grows Forever Assuming Falling In Love Dear Zero Borrowed Permanence Zero Sum Game Old Friendship

Author:Emily Giffin

“A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself”

Men Assuming Virtuous

Book:Seventh Son and Red Prophet

Source: Seventh Son and Red Prophet

“I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our money trail; we created that term for you so that we can have all our money and still get everything we want from you without you asking for or expecting this very basic, instincual responsibility that men all over the world are obligated to assume and embrace. ... KNOW THIS: It is your right to expect that a man will pay for your dinner, your movie ticket, your club entry fee, or whatever else he has to pay for in exhange for your time.”

Source: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Expanded Edition: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

“Because he sounded so lost-the Eric I knew had never been one to do anything other than assume others should serve him-I patted around under the covers for his hand. When I found it, I slid my own over it. His palm was turned up to meet my palm, and his fingers clasped mine. And though I would not have thought it possible to go to sleep holding hands with a vampire, that's exactly what I did.”

Should Hands Found Lost My Own Sleep Mines Assuming Fingers Vampire Over It Palms Going To Sleep Eric Holding Hands Sookie Stackhouse Eric Northman

Book:Dead To The World: A True Blood Novel

Source: Dead To The World: A True Blood Novel

“In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.”

Men Doe Might Lying Example Approach Advantage Assuming Edges Absence Stealing Traditional Ice Witness Village Hunting Cheat Alaska Murphy Inuit

Author:Martha Stout