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“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.”

Source: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

“I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.”

Firsts Millions Clothes Dollars Assuming Invisible Manage Assumption Drivers Million Dollars Bounty

Book:Zodiac

Source: Zodiac

“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you’ll never dumb things down. You won’t have to explain things that don’t need explaining. You’ll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don’t wish to be condescended to.”

Way Needs Should Writing Wish Natural Students Reader Smart Letters Assuming Intimacy Dumb Explaining Shorthand Dumb Things

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.”

Humility Pride Assuming Mask Dense

Book:Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace

Source: Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace

“Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.”

Source: The 48 Laws Of Power

“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”

People Ideas Moments Desire Hours Emotion Particular Assuming Mood Statements Permanent Never Assume

Book:Mastery

Source: Mastery

“People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.”

People Want May Running Office Assuming Assumption

Author:Andrew Cuomo

“France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.”

President Responsibility Assuming Defeat France

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.”

Firsts May Stills Romance Form Principles Assuming Hypothesis Speculation Ingenious

Author:Roger Cotes

“I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.”

Ifs Needs Doe Jobs Jesus Christ Christianity Demand Jesus Christ Tasks Assuming Appearance Protection Surround Anguish

Book:Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.”

Way Want Ends Dies Limits Assuming Lists Discouraging Escaping Wanting To Die Humiliating

Author:Umberto Eco

“But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people.”

People Ideas Young Worst Possibility Like You Depends Empathy Assuming New Ideas Stereotype New Possibilities

Author:Barack Obama

“Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.”

Different Political Religious Source Assuming Conviction Collectives

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?”

Ifs Believe Economy Balance Citizens Fellows Assuming Don't Believe Debt Drawing Sheets Balance Sheets

Author:Mitch Daniels

“I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.”

Desire Courses Management Assuming

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.”

Thinking World Reason Purpose Existence Cry Design Discovery Intelligent Assuming Property Obvious Setting Settings Explanation Cosmos Intelligent Design

Book:The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

Source: The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery

“Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a little, but not yet. Assuming by Christianity you mean the Christian understanding of the world and God, Christian opinions on soul, text, and culture I'd have to say that we probably have a couple of things right, but a lot of things wrong, and even more spreads before us unseen and unimagined. But at least our eyes are open! To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall.”

Ifs World Way Mean Littles Soul Eye Christian Culture Asks Understanding Answers Christianity Opinion Honest Wall Couple Claims Assuming Spread Versions Ask Me Orthodox Pope Unseen Captured

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“When a woman extends her hand for you to shake it, then you shake her hand. You do not turn it up and kiss it. And it is just so creepy. Because, you know, I handed it at this angle. I handed it at the handshake angle and so I'm not giving it to you to do whatever you want with it. I'm not loaning it to you. It's like if somebody borrowed your lawnmower and you're assuming they're going to use it to mow their lawn. You don't want to find out later they put it in the ocean!”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Use Hands Turns Kissing Ocean Assuming Shakes Angle Creepy Borrowed Lawns Do Whatever You Want Handshake

Author:Paula Poundstone

“Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.”

Wells Character Life Is Religious Struggle Assuming Atheist Worried Palestinian Israeli

Author:Uri Avnery

“But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are not built by human beings.. b) They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity.. c) They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes.”

“We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.”

Way Has Beens Use Natural Our Lives Becoming Resources Assuming Environmental Improvement Efficient Becoming More Natural Resources

Author:Paul Hawken

“A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.”

Matter Risk Management Assuming Thumbs Risk Management

Author:Richard Thaler

“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”

World Mind Humans Views Progress Mystery Dangerous Ultimate Assuming Conquer Triumph Human Mind New World

Author:Humphry Davy

“No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Would Be Action Certain Easy Situation Knowing Judging Assuming Shoes Judgement Assumption Easy To Judge

Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

Thinking Believe Faith Belief My Own Existence Opinion Aspect Assuming Doctrine Certitude

Book:Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

Source: Cosmic trigger: final secret of the illuminati

“Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.”

“If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.”

Ifs Found Consequence Assuming Statistics Unlimited

Book:Aristotle, the Physics

Source: Aristotle, the Physics

“Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.”

Hard Care Used Attention Youth Civilization Intellectual Foundation Assuming Dear Philosopher Brands Tape Basements Sinister Undermining Duct Tape

Author:Richard Rorty

“The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.”

People World Writing May Art Seems Care Certain Silence Cases Share Changed Despair Assuming Finals Storytelling Optimistic Touched Our World Pessimism Symptoms Outlook Sustaining Affirming

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.”

World Mind Responsibility Program Assuming Department Facets

Author:Jack Kornfield

“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.”

Ifs Mind Self Might Eye Moving Watches Practice Clear Return Assuming Boat Permanent Confused Where You Are Shore Unchanging Confused Mind

Author:Dogen

“I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred”

Government Form Democracy Assuming Forms Of Government

Author:Jeane Kirkpatrick

“Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.”

People Humans Matter Lying Strong Lows Assuming Temptation Decency Manipulator Never Assume Shredding

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.”

Source: Becoming Native to This Place

“The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.”

People Years I Can Faces Quality Communication Assuming Meetings Phones Quests Efficiency Face To Face Phone Calls Misguided

Author:Richard Branson

“I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.”

Thinking Culture Enjoy Assuming Our Society More Money Enjoy Life Default Brainwashed Society And Culture

Author:Tony Hsieh

“Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.”

Ifs Bigs Taken Car Assuming Radio Jew Rough Camps Holocaust Acquaintance Cattle Holland Uncivilized Gestapo Jewish Friends

Author:Anne Frank

“It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.”

Source: The Holiness of God

“The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it.”

Way Loses Assuming

Author:D. A. Carson

“Assume' makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.”

Assuming Ass

Book:Darkfever: Fever Series

Source: Darkfever: Fever Series

“Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.”

Ifs Men Fall Difficult Power Capacity Assuming Contrary Mortals Anything Is Possible

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.”

Doe Different Self Fire Objects Shapes Creatures Assuming

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Do not assume that divine guidance flows only when you are in need of help. Guidance continues to flow whether or not you have problems. It transcends problems, heartbreaks, and traumas, flowing through dreams and illuminations. Whether guidance comes during times of tranquility or trauma, however, it is up to you to have the courage to acknowledge it”

Needs Helping Problem Dream Divine Flow Assuming Trauma Acknowledge Guidance Tranquility Up To You Illumination Divine Guidance

Book:Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

Source: Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul

“When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.”

Wells Doe Risk Paid Sells Assuming Investing Inherent Profitable Portfolios Profitable Business

Book:Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

“The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered”

Ifs Together Party Assuming Patterns Splits Freeze Disadvantages Electoral Process Electoral Systems

Book:Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance

Source: Partnership of principle: writings and speeches on the making of the alliance

“Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men”

Men Disease Importance Increase Assuming Males Population Longevity Sufferers Osteoporosis

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.”

People Artist My Own Careers Terrible Assuming

Author:Tori Amos

“Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?”

Kind Assuming Ecstasy

Book:The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story

Source: The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story

“Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.”

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