Quotes with assuming

  • The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

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  • Benjamin Tucker And this is the Anarchistic definition of the State: the embodiment of the principle of invasion in an individual, or a band of individuals, assuming to act as representatives or masters of the entire people within a given area.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Albert J. Nock Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Barbara Park Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Betsy Brandt In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Angela Davis Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alonzo Church The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Bobby Ray Inman The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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