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• Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

  Amy Waldman

  Religious, Emotional, Community

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• 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

  Writing, Media, Literacy

  Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.170, NYU Press

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• Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

  Albert Einstein

  Kindness, Eye, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.76, Broadway Books

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• One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

  Plato

  Character, Reality, Words Of Wisdom

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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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• One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

  Plato

  Ambition, Character, Reality

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Responsibility, Heart

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• No one is perfect and everyone is different, but everyone one is beautiful in their own way and that's what makes us special.For me, it went beyond being a beauty queen. For me, it was about being the 20-year-old girl from India on international platform and a lot of people actually would assume that I wasn`t even educated in India because of the way I'd speak.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

  Chad Hurley

  Success, Business, Powerful

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• Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Tasks, Needs

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.52, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

  Lucas Papademos

  Government, Achievement, Funding

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• I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Pride, Successful

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• Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.

  Joseph Sobran

  Exercise, Government, Limits

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• You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Cute, Girl, Teenager

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• 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

  Thinking, Way, Boxes

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• Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I want a gay son. People laugh, but they assume I'm kidding. I'm not.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Inspiring, Mother, Son

  "“You’re supposed to marry the person you love, Mom”". www.salon.com. March 29, 2005.

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• To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

  Jason Jordan

  Pipeline, Assumption, Bigger

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• The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

  Charles Hodge

  Organization, Church, Earth

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.4

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• After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Vegas, Mirrors, Careers

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• Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Views, Different, Assumption

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• The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Made, Process

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2015). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

  John Milton

  Sex, Enmity, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

  Lyman Abbott

  Men, Essence, Transcendentalism

  Lyman Abbott (1872). “Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish”, p.9

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• Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

  George Eliot

  Animal, Feet, Pet

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• Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Successful, Games, Black

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