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Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood -- Paulo Freire
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. -- Victoria Woodhull
I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. -- Mira Sorvino
Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility. -- Li Keqiang
I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not. -- Anthony Kiedis
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny? -- Jessica Biel
People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works. -- John Diamond
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous. -- Martin Jacques
A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes. -- Marsha Blackburn
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. -- Martin Van Creveld
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. -- Rafael Correa
People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be. -- Daphne Guinness
On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids. -- Howard Rheingold
I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me. -- Chris Massoglia
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience. -- John Perry Barlow
When it comes to personnel issues, I act professionally and respectful of former employees. I just assume that's a two-way street. It's disappointing when it's not. -- Michele Bachmann
Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. -- Bart Chilton
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass. -- Don Ellis
I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that. -- Cameron Russell
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. -- Robert Bork
Assume a virtue if you have it not. -- William Shakespeare
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. -- William Shakespeare
Always assume that a lucky hit will not be repeated. -- Mason Cooley
Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed. -- Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay
Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy. -- Claire Danes
Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn't do. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand. -- Lord Byron
One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative. -- David Eller
It's not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world's policemen. -- Ron Paul
Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people donâ??t understand this -- Lee Kuan Yew
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous. -- Aesop
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. -- Brooks Atkinson
We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more. -- Terry-Thomas
When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard. -- Carmen Electra
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth. -- Idries Shah
I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing. -- Ann Aguirre
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is. -- Sallust
You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. -- George Orwell
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. -- John Rawls
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language -- Louis Pasteur
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction? -- Alfred de Vigny
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn. -- Hilary Duff
And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him. -- Neil Gaiman
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man. -- Marcus Aurelius
You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all. -- Max Brooks
I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me. -- Charlie Brooker
A lot of people assume that the expensive ideas are the most effective ones, but that is simply not true. -- Jaime Lerner
I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do. -- Mark T Bertolini
It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way. -- Henry Harrower
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. -- Howard Rheingold
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. -- Thomas Jefferson
You get photographed together when there's 25 people with you and people assume that you're having sex, which is definitely not the case. -- Chelsea Handler
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there. -- Edward de Bono
I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan. -- Courtney Gains
It's great that it's raining. But people should not assume that a little bit of rain is going to solve our problem. -- Peter Gleick
The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities. -- David McGee
Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be. -- T.F. Hodge
Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. -- Marcel Proust
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. -- Rush Limbaugh
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians? -- Lee Kuan Yew
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it. -- Edward Dahlberg
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them. -- Marie Clay
I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things. -- Susan B. Anthony
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of. -- Umberto Eco
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. -- William Butler Yeats
But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box. -- Katharine Jefferts Schori
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software. -- Richard Stallman
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume. -- Chris Evans
Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight... -- Marianne Williamson
People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar. -- Cate Blanchett
I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded. -- Victoria Woodhull
I do work a lot on arguing that things which people assume are always wrong are not necessarily so and, indeed, can often be right. -- Meir Soloveichik
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?""He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species. -- Grace Burrowes
It is futile to assume that an initially ineffective advertisement still needs to wear in; wear-in either happens quickly or it does not happen at all. -- Gerard J Tellis
When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason. -- James Altucher
Of course not, she snappedI'm only thirsty. Would you play the gallant and find me a glass of lemonade?I assume 'lemonade' is code for wine? -- Victoria Dahl
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers. -- Eric Schmidt
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific. -- Cate Blanchett
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better. -- Thomas Sowell
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm not -- Robert Pattinson
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God. -- Stanley Hauerwas
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it. -- Niels Bohr
Culturally intelligent leaders will not assume they know what will build trust with clients or staff. Instead, they'll discover what's most important for communicating and building trust. -- David Livermore
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way -- Claude C. Hopkins
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God. -- Henry Adams
The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause. -- David Attenborough
Only humans are judgmental, and because you are, you assume that I must be. Yet I am not, and that is the great truth you cannot accept. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction. -- Esther Perel
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger. -- Robert A. Heinlein
One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously. -- Sigmund Freud
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all. -- Sarah Dessen
No matter how obstacles may play you over the bar, you will be able to assume your shape when your passion is always intact. You will not burst! -- Israelmore Ayivor
To assume that wealth or sexuality or the usage of power, any of these things are not void in nature, gives them a reality they don't actually have. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too. -- Mara Wilson
No one has the right to not assume that the business cycle will turn! Every five years or so, you have got to assume that something bad will happen. -- Jamie Dimon
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine. -- Steven Weinberg
Always get rid of theory private object in this way: assume that it constantly changes, but that you do not notice the change because your memory constantly deceives you. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case -- Ed Harris
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. -- Ed Harris
Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are. -- Hans Selye
I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway. -- Queen Latifah
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he does not assume that they are ready-made for today. -- Leo Steinberg
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. -- William James
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume. -- Walter Darby Bannard
But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do. -- Hillary Clinton
Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions. -- Rolf Dobelli
We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives. -- Barack Obama
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves -- Henry Jenkins

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