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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. -- George Washington
If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it's assumed that I'm gay. -- Shah Rukh Khan
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. -- Elizabeth Blackwell
The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. -- Nelson Mandela
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business. -- Mark Skousen
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good. -- John Foster Dulles
I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest. -- John Darnielle
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. -- Haruki Murakami
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. -- Grover Cleveland
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption. -- Raymond Bonner
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. -- Karl Ferdinand Braun
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base. -- Timothy Ferriss
I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there. -- Nicki Minaj
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! -- Brian Eno
If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner' and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to 'Rocky and Bullwinkle,' you'd see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head. -- Ray Bradbury
I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's because when the Xbox first came out, the controller was so different that you just automatically assumed that it was harder to play, and I always just stuck with that notion. -- Reggie Bush
When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst. -- Rob Sheffield
I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict. -- Kurt Cobain
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. -- Mindy Kaling
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment. -- Jason Segel
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity. -- William of Ockham
I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights. -- Ryan North
...guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven. -- Miguel Syjuco
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent -- David R. Brower
That which He has not assumed He has not healed. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
It was always assumed that I would go to college. -- Paul D. Boyer
Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity. -- Valerie Harper
The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed. -- Margaret Landon
What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. -- Thomas Paine
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. -- Steven Morrissey
TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film. -- Eric Stoltz
I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings. -- John Pfahl
He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have assumed control where once we worked with what we were given. -- Bill McKibben
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. -- Taliesin
Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die. -- Charley Reese
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend. -- Jerry Moran
He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. -- Larry Niven
I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. -- Alan Alda
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it. -- Daniel Kahneman
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again. -- Steve Coogan
I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played. -- Andre Rieu
I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth. -- Oswald Pohl
I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. -- Kim Cattrall
I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage. -- Kami Garcia
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The physical reality is assumed to be the wave function of the whole universe itself. -- Hugh Jackman
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. -- Nelson Algren
I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not! -- Olivia Colman
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. -- David Sedaris
Transformation occurs when existing solutions, assumed truths and past decisions are exposed as unrealistic and self-defeating. -- Peter Shepherd
In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. -- Stephen Gardiner
Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too. -- Veronica Roth
The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? -- Paul Ryan
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. -- Howard W. Hunter
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. -- Maya Angelou
The ability to dream, be brave, and love, is never guaranteed, but must always be assumed. -- Andrea T. Goeglein
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. -- William Cowper
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. -- Alan Bennett
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist. -- Shigeo Shingo
Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context. -- Edmundo Desnoes
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt. -- R. C. Sproul
I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. -- David Thorne
I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends. -- Murray Bookchin
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. -- Guy Sajer
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. -- V. S. Pritchett
Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies. -- Madeline Levine
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. -- Victoria Woodhull
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. -- Frederick Pollock
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen. -- Gillian Flynn
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal. -- Ben Stein
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford. -- Maureen Johnson
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist. -- Kehinde Wiley
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. -- George MacDonald
There was an unexpected freedom in ï¬nding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed! -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. -- Elihu Root
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. -- Helen Fisher
The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed. -- C. S. Lewis
Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match. -- J.R. Ward
I don't want to say anything about my kids...but I go to PTA meetings under an assumed name! -- Robert Orben
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. -- Charles Caleb Colton
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. -- Jennifer Tilly
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed. -- Aleister Crowley
Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving. -- Jennifer Crusie
Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history. -- Mitt Romney
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. -- John Steinbeck
If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. -- Liane Moriarty
I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird. -- Melissa Joan Hart
It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. -- Bernard Levin
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. -- Jared Harris
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. -- John Updike
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder. -- Madeline Miller
Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty
We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States. -- J. William Fulbright
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. -- George Santayana
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter "? that would be my life. -- Jasper Johns
Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news. -- Walter Lippmann
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. -- George Bernard Shaw
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. -- Edward Bond
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business. -- Ricky Jay
I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere. -- Lindi Ortega
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought. -- Rudolf Arnheim
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas -- Edward Bond
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. -- Milton Sapirstein
One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be. -- Ben Bernanke
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others -- NA
I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen. -- Olivia Colman

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