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• I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

  John Updike

  Eye, Golf, Fog

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.20, Random House

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• No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Paulo Freire (1998). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you should value them most. Because they have paid you the compliment of leveling with you and assuming you can handle it.

  Pat Summitt

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Truth

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.48, Crown Business

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• When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Ipods, Chinese

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Meditation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Lakes

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.

  Phillip Sandifer

  Thinking, Two Sides, Historical

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• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Fighting, Issues, People

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• I would assume everybody thinks they are a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

  Joe Flacco

  Jobs, Successful, Thinking

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• I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Mean, Trouble, Claims

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind. Work with what you have right now. Work with the people around you right now…. Do not wait for what you assume is the appropriate, stress-free environment in which to generate expression…. Do not wait till you are sure that you know what you are doing…. What you do now, what you make of your present circumstances, will determine the quality and scope of your future endeavors.

  Anne Bogart

  Stress, Thinking, Expression

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• Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Mean, Use, Sometimes

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.

  Tamara E. Jernigan

  Clever, Successful, Space

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• It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.

  Kristian Birkeland

  Views, Ions, Space

  Kristian Birkeland (1908). “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903”

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• If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

  Bill Buxton

  Technology, Impact, Years

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.215, Morgan Kaufmann

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• In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

  Kelly Cutrone

  People, Culture, Razors

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• My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

  Takeshi Kaneshiro

  Thinking, Years, People

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• What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning. I also don’t like lies. I’m very honest. I’m always going to tell the truth. I don’t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.

  Selena

  Lying, People, Arrogant

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• Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Inspirational, Believe, Reality

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• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Why not simply honor your parents, love your children, help your brothers and sisters, be faithful to your friends, care for your mate with devotion, complete your work cooperatively and joyfully, assume responsibility for problems, practice virtue without first demanding it of others, understand the highest truths yet retain an ordinary manner? That would be true clarity, true simplicity, true mastery.

  Laozi

  Sister, Faith, Brother

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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