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• I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

  Jonah Hill

  Rose, Life Is, Turns

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of 'Superbad'". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

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• If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

  Leon Panetta

  Responsibility, United States, Reform

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. December 6, 2006.

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• People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Girl, Party, Home

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• People make jokes about my bosoms, why don't they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It's obvious I've got big ones and if people want to assume they're not mine, then let them.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, People, Looks

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• Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

  Ron Paul

  Play, America, Roles

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• I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Nuclear, Weapons

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• It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

  Deb Caletti

  Grief, People, Upset

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

  Cassandra Clare

  Emotion, Jace, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Desire, Hints, May

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• It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

  Eric Hoffer

  Relationship, Money, People

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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• What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Science

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• If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Success, Responsibility, Conformity

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• The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Weakness

  Thomas Jefferson (1941). “The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Jefferson Bible, "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,"”

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• There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sad, Eye, Humanity

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.52, City Lights Books

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• 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

  Business, Doe, Needs

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• We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

  Charles Handy

  Educational, Learning, People

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• My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Angel, Views

  Preface to "Fact and Faith", 1934.

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• "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Thinking, Stranger

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• Most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind. But actually it's ... about stepping back, seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going.

  Andy Puddicombe

  God, People, Meditation

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• 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

  Spirituality, Judgmental, Accepting

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.172, Penguin

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• It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

  Josh Billings

  Addiction, Skins, Trying

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• If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

  Johann Most

  Country, World, Communism

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