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“We mustn't assume that we are going to deinvent government solely from inside the Beltway or within one or two sessions of Congress. We will do it one step at a time, in one community at a time - at the local level and through local institutions like churches, nonprofit and volunteer organizations and families.”

Two Government Politics Community Church Levels Steps Organization Institutions Assuming Congress Locals Volunteer Session One Step At A Time Nonprofits

Author:Jeb Bush

“Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.”

Trying Change Mistake Leader Player Football Assuming Making Mistakes True Leader Bash

Author:Johan Cruijff

“Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.”

Knows Assuming Halloween Never Assume

Author:Blake Crouch

“Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.”

People Ends Matter Religion Humanity Culture Assuming Superiors Traditional Granted Inferiors Modernity Apes Anthropologists Slime

Author:Huston Smith

“A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency - issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights - the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.”

“I grew up upper-class. Private school, my dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

People School Together Parent Situation Class Grew Dad Grew Up Assuming My Dad African American Working Together Using Me Upper Class Private School Bad Situations Jaguars

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you.”

Ifs Problem Assuming

Author:Bruce C. Hafen

“Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.”

Humans Wells Shows Universe Religious Views Praying Assuming Believer Attractive Openness Intuitive Theism Theist

Author:Philip Clayton

“This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.”

Economy Assuming Refuse Contrary Budgets Reduction Revision

Author:Laurent Fabius

“And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.”

Ifs Shows Nice Assuming Honestly Making Money Assumption Killers Coats Eyebrows Fur Crooks Fur Coats

Author:Esther Dyson

“Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.”

Body Together White Fire Quiet Draws Assuming Terror Bones Milk Metals

Book:Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound

Source: Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound

“Nowadays, everybody assumes, when the wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.”

Ifs Matter Answers Morning Internet Wake Up No Matter What Assuming

Author:Jack White

“If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.”

Ifs Facts Earth Desire Positive Becoming Assuming Attraction Law Of Attraction

Author:Neville Goddard

“Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.”

Thinking Government Trouble Produce Consequence Assuming Imbecility

Book:An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness

Source: An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness

“So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.”

Thinking Would Be Moving My Own Attention Records Feet Materials Assuming Guitar Being The Best Village Acoustics Best Place Acoustic Guitar Harmonicas Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Steve Forbert

“If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.”

Ifs Reason Funny Inspiring Havens Assuming No Reason Guitarist

Author:Jerry Garcia

“By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of views is the full range of politics and social values from center to far right. The American audience, having been exposed to a narrowing range of ideas over the decades, often assumes that what they see and hear in the major media is all there is. It is no way to maintain a lively marketplace of ideas, which is to say it is no way to maintain a democracy.”

“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.”

People Thinking I Can Remember Song Cases Assuming

Author:Brian Eno

“I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.”

“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”

World War Country Stories Political Turns Literature Leadership Century Military Assuming British War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I 19th Century Success Stories Military Leadership

Author:Neil Sheehan

“We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.”

Helping Powerful Technology Easier Computer Weapons Assuming Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Advanced Technology

Author:Mordechai Vanunu

“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.”

Has Beens Seems Science Process Nature Safe Bases Assuming Surface Reactions Chemicals Protein Chemical Reactions Enzymes

Author:John Desmond Bernal

“Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.”

Knows Learning Assuming Arrogant Monopoly Know It All Keep Learning

Author:Jack Welch

“Iraq does pose a serious threat to the stability of the Persian Gulf and we should organize an international coalition to eliminate his access to weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to completely deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.”

“Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.”

Ifs Want Writing America Simple Rights Willing Luck Assuming Disappointment Pursue Guarantees Delusion Sensible Entitled Twisted Bad Luck

Author:Susan Jacoby

“We have every reason to assume the worst.”

Reason President Worst Assuming

Author:George W. Bush

“If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.”

Ifs Way Want Use Responsibility Greater Healthy Skins Bases Medicine Assuming Plant Best Way Familiar Wellness Reproduction Digestion Alternative Medicine Plant Medicine

Author:Chris Kilham

“California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.”

“There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.”

Has Beens Made Facts Certain Results Common Assuming Errors Math Mathematical Application Accurate Calculations

Book:An Introduction to Mathematics

Source: An Introduction to Mathematics

“A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.”

Love Feels Important Feelings Able Felt Voice Levels Known Willing Members Assuming Expected Conclusion Willingness Family Members Converses Thoughts And Feelings Wrong Conclusion

Author:Marvin J. Ashton

“Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one activity to another without any focused or directed purpose, naively assuming that things will take care of themselves or will be taken care of by others. George Bernard Shaw said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."”

People Ifs World Want Looks Said Care Success Purpose Vision Successful Taken This World Circumstances Activity Regard Assuming Take Care Focused Objectives Pursue Get Up Select Bernard Shaw

Author:Ari Kiev

“When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Sides Teach Audience Students Assuming Smarter Your Side

Author:Tony Kushner

“You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.”

Writing Matter Particular Sitting Down And Assuming Suits Sitting Down

Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud

Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud

“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.”

Knows Artist Heaven Assuming Stable

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.”

Ifs Enough Body Past Quality Bears Assuming Architecture Witness Sensitive Exposed Past Life

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“Whenever I’m about to have sex with a girl, I play it smart and just automatically assume she has herpes; because that way I don’t have to tell her about my herpes.”

Way Play Girl Sex Smart Assuming Herpes

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.”

Men Masters Relation Absolutes Fellows Assuming Guilty Fellow Man Servitude Absolute Power

Book:Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

Source: Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi

“Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.”

Writing Limits Assuming

Author:Ann Beattie

“Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.”

Real Dies Strong Chance Assuming Conviction Contribution Bowie

Author:Marc Bolan

“To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.”

People Eye Responsibility Type Discipline Capacity Assuming Organized Destructive Rejects Efficient Delay Gratification Live In The Present

Author:M. Scott Peck

“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.”

Kind Opportunity Given Parent Assuming Environmental Available Limitation Researchers Composites

Author:Howard Gardner

“The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Looks Interest Sacrifice Benefits Concern Seasons Assuming Command Sacrifice For Others Season Of Giving

Book:The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.”

Inspirational Looks Moving Careers Assuming

Author:Andy Grove

“The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.”

Needs Humans Seems Powerful Common Pressure Assuming Significant Human Life Features Genetic Engineering Cloning Human Cloning

Book:The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control

Source: The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control

“Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.”

Use Forget Talent Assuming Bother Accomplished

Author:Richard Schmid

“When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.”

Men Trying Suffering Individual Animal Tree Consequence Assuming Ownership Psychics Cages Another Man Unnatural

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.”

Earth Responsibility Generations Assuming Finals Definitions Analysis Womanhood Manhood

Book:Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution

Source: Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution

“Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.”

“Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.”

Doe Grows Doubt Military Resources Program Assuming China No Doubt Proportion

Author:Martin Van Creveld

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