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• The President appoints the U.S. Attorneys. They're political in a certain respect. But the Department of Justice - the power that they hold is so great, it's life and limb, you know - put you in jail, make you run up hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal costs. Even though we understand that political appointees take these jobs. We don't assume that the party in power is going to use that kind of power to advance its political interests.

  Josh Marshall

  Running, Party, Justice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.

  Barack Obama

  Confused, Humility, Being True

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Believe, Responsibility, Kids

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.

  Craig Blomberg

  Metaphor, Apocalyptic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Never take biblical interpretation lightly. Never assume you've arrived or learned all that you can. Be a lifelong learner, but always apply what you're learning to yourself in real-life situations. Accurate interpretation is meant to lead to obedience.

  Craig Blomberg

  Biblical, Never Assume, Obedience

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If you draw the entire timeline of humanity from the time humans first trod until today, let's just assume that's 10 feet on a timeline. My time on that timeline is so small that you couldn't point it out. Let's say it's smaller than a grain of sand, in that whole 10-foot timeline of humanity. And when I lost my hearing, it happened to coincide with human technology advancing to the point that the cochlear implant existed. If I had lost my hearing five years earlier, I would have had to quit my job. I would have lost my career. I've always been kind of in awe of that reality.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Technology, Reality, Humanity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think when you take the job, you automatically assume that you work for the president. And you are part of a team. And loyalty is a big thing. It's, you know, as a former governor, I can tell you, loyalty and trust is everything when you're a CEO. And so I can totally understand why Donald Trump is looking for loyalty and trust.

  Nikki Haley

  Loyalty, Team, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.

  Nikki Haley

  Worry

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want to create a ghetto where women have to do movies about women. To assume stories about women need to be told by a woman isn't necessarily true, just as stories about men don't need a male director.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Ghetto, Men

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Christian, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Assuming he wins his primary easily, and continues to push back when Donald Trump goes over the line, I think Paul Ryan is well positioned to run in 2020 if Trump loses.

  Christopher Michael Cillizza

  Running, Winning, Thinking

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect on institutional bias in criminal justice. But what - what - what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement. We truly do believe that law enforcement is not a force for racism or division in our country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2016.

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• We can't just assume that this resistance is going to produce the kinds of candidates or the kinds of parties that will truly honor people of all colors, all backgrounds, all ethnicities, from every nation and every faith and every gender, unless we do the work in our own communities of organizing and being in deep dialogue with one another across all forms of difference. It's my hope that we'll seize this opportunity and not let the moment pass.

  Michelle Alexander

  Party, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People think that because they've seen your name in print, you're rich. I assume that. But all it means is that there was some intrepid interviewer who bothered to give you a call.

  Will Sheff

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.

  Christopher Bollen

  Running, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't assume that your personal moral compass, however admirable it may be, will always give you the right answer to complicated questions that require in-depth analysis.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Giving, Moral, Complicated

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in virtually every industry that are profitable because they provide good jobs.

  James O'Toole

  Logic, Good Job, Backwards

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different countries and see what we can do to support the work that's already going on, as opposed to kind of assuming that we know best for women in other areas.

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Thinking, Support

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

  Ryan Guzman

  Humble, Goal, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that's inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade, I've studied people with uncanny abilities - card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here's the thing: These weren't innate skills - they were acquired.

  Berit Brogaard

  Artist, People, House

  "The Easiest Way To Get A Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2015.

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• Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.

  Al Gore

  People, Chance, Scientist

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think a lot of people would assume that my job is more about supermodels and naked ladies and all that, and no, it's just really about fashion, merchandise and customers. So the obviously sexy parts - you get to go to the fashion show and all that stuff. It's really just business. That's my story. I'm sticking to it.

  Les Wexner

  Sexy, Fashion, Thinking

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• We can use our art to become political, to become something you want to talk about. We make clothes, but we have the chance to change a generation as well. We have to remember that fashion changed the roles of men and women: When Yves Saint Laurent was putting pants on a woman, he was not only doing that - he was assuming the fact that a woman can wear pants like a man. It's all the codes that I think fashion pushed so much to change the world, and today it's what I'm trying to do in my own way.

  Olivier Rousteing

  Fashion, Art, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I would assume that everyone has an experience in their life where they knew something wasn't cool, but even if they sort of removed themselves from it, they didn't totally stop it and become a hero.

  Craig Zobel

  Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to be in California in order to write or direct movies. People say, "Oh, I'm gonna do it from Pittsburgh. I'm just gonna deliver scripts or fly out, like, once, then fly back." You have to make a full commitment. You have to actually get on a plane, come to L.A., rent a place, and live there. And that's how you forge your career. Not just sort of haphazardly. Once you've got a few hits under your belt, assuming you do, then go back and move away and correspond with the studio.

  Shane Black

  Moving, Writing, Commitment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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