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“With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!”

Heart Two Responsibility Millions Citizens My Heart Hundred Female Assuming Arise Chinese

Author:Qiu Jin

“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.”

People Thinking Ends Young Wish Pleasure Sorrow Importance Assuming Notion Fulfilled

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!”

Mother Names Assuming Pity

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.”

Ifs Way Should Children Found Education Teach Learning Teacher Assuming Right Way Researchers Teaching Children Children Learning Bad Teacher

Author:Marie Clay

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”

Heart Feelings Form Universe Religious Mankind Assuming

Author:Madame de Stael

“Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.”

Ifs Next Chance Listening Assuming Next Time

Author:Alan Lewis

“I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy”

Thinking Has Beens Action Economy Taken Happenings Assuming Rate Setting Settings Data Appropriate Committees Dynamics

Author:Bill Vaughan

“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.”

Ifs Men Art Made Real Dream Turns Cities Comedy Laughter Assuming Representatives Plato Jungle Marxism Polis Future Society

Book:Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman

Source: Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman

“If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How likely is it that there will be life elsewhere in the universe?"”

Ifs Thinking Universe Assuming Elsewhere

Author:Paul Davies

“It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.”

Way Years Long Has Beens Might Remember Term Millions Technology Environment Example Planets Civilization Bigger Assuming Leaving Global Warming Long Way Footprint Advanced Civilization

Author:Paul Davies

“The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.”

Men Reason Enough Home Men And Women Prejudice Assuming Reason Why Pushing Halls

Author:Brigid Schulte

“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”

States Becoming Shapes Constant Assuming Profound Profound Thoughts

Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.”

Light Dark Taught Areas Assuming Edges Features Evident Texture Taught Us

Author:Rex Brandt

“No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.”

People Art Facts Language Assuming Visuals Betray

Book:Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.”

Humans Language Assuming Property Possession Exclusive Mute

Author:David Abram

“That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.”

Ifs Thinking Years Facts Mistake Tradition Assuming Western Nationalism Observers Korean Confucian

Author:Brian Reynolds Myers

“With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.”

Mind Has Beens Soul Body Past Lost Achieve Expectations Assuming Strive Pursuit Our Future Our Past Strife Your Future Your Past Accord

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.”

“When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.”

“A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.”

People Men Years Humans States Human Beings United Responsibility United States Vote Increase Murder Assuming Burden Debt

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.”

Heaven Existence Study Logic Assuming Traditional Symbols Precise Employed Celestial

Author:Bertrand Russell

“A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.”

Ifs Men Wells Looks May Doe Causes Gold Luck Assuming Physicist Bad Luck

Book:Bertrand Russell on God and Religion

Source: Bertrand Russell on God and Religion

“Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.”

Persons Soul Facts Suffering Natural Failing Effects Treats Assuming Tendencies Misfortunes Unfortunate Catastrophe Vocation

Book:War and the Iliad

Source: War and the Iliad

“Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?”

Whole Assuming Deny Reasonable

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”

Needs Writing Romance Certain Wish Felt Novel Fashion Materials Claims Assuming Entitled Latitude

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.”

Ifs Earth Fall Three Force Animal Moon Distance Assuming Substance Fifty Fourth Orbit Density

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.”

Eye Form Youth Assuming Faults Giants Exaggerated

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“Every text assumes a reader.”

Reader Assuming

Book:A History of Reading

Source: A History of Reading

“I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.”

Book Intelligent Assuming Good Book

Author:Umberto Eco

“Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?”

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

“I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit.”

Stupid Assuming Deceit Fraud Attributes

Book:See, I Told You So

Source: See, I Told You So

“Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.”

“I think sometimes that people assume because I'm on television I'm an expert, but I think the whole point of what I do is that I'm not and I don't have any training. My approach isn't about a fancy ingredient or style. I cook what I love to eat.”

People Thinking Sometimes Whole Style Television Approach Training Assuming Cooks Experts Fancy Ingredients

Author:Nigella Lawson

“I don't think there's a conflation between somebody's personal wealth and whether they should run for office or not, assuming that they're not actually pursuing policies that help them make a lot of money.”

Thinking Should Helping Running Wealth Policy Office Assuming Lots Of Money Personal Wealth

Author:Julie Roginsky

“When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.”

Men Might Eye Religious Assuming Treated Secular

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Telephones in 2020 will be archaic, relics of a bygone era-like transistor radios are today. Telephony, which will be entirely IP-based by then, will be a standard communications chip on many devices. We'll probably carry some kind of screen-based reading device that will perform this function, though I assume when we want to communicate verbally, we'll do so through a tiny, earplug-based device.”

Want Kind Today Reading Communication Standards Function Assuming Radio Communicate Screens Tiny Eras Devices Telephones Chips Relics Transistors

Author:Josh Quittner

“Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.”

Ifs Streets Wall Assuming Copies Doomed Always Wrong

Author:George Soros

“The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to judge in the legal and moral sense, arrests the perception of those who are influenced by the criticism that assumes this task.”

Art Moral Judging Perception Tasks Criticism Function Assuming Works Of Art Conception Appraise

Author:John Dewey

“When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.”

Persons Hard Winning Quality Assuming Characteristics Define You

Author:Lance Armstrong

“If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.”

“The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.”

Firsts States Assuming Arrogant Better Than You Patronage

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.”

Persons Humility Assuming Exalted Insolent Haughtiness

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“As one scientist puts it, we can now assume that just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature.”

Needs Wells May Children Sleep Scientist Assuming Contact Nutrition Adequate Good Nutrition

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.”

Knows World Writing Kind I Can Different Might Novel Know How Involved Assuming Storytelling Crafts Someday Different Kinds Because I Can Screenplays Different Worlds

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.”

Way Needs Running Mistake Effects Walking Truth Is Assuming Need You Loner Walking Away Presuming Don't Need You I Don't Need You

Author:Anneli Rufus

“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”

Philosophy Assuming Preaching Propositions

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.”

Spirit Purpose Sex Please Pure Shapes Essence Assuming Bones Flesh Tied Obscure Limbs Joints Enmity Airy Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1

Author:John Milton

“Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.”

Doe Character Assuming Ridiculous

Book:Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

“I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.”

People Thinking Knows Want Said Certain Effort Cases Advice Court Assuming Lawyer Useless Disgusting Assistance Consultation

Author:Franz Kafka

“With kings, nations, and private individuals, the strongest assume to themselves rights over the weakest, and the same rule is followed by animals, by matter, by the elements, so that everything is performed in the universe by violence. And that order which we blame with some appearance of justice is the most universal, most absolute, most unchangeable, and most ancient law of nature.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

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