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«You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.»
«We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
accustom, accustomed, assume, believed, code, coded, coding, contempt, crack, endlessly, expecting, honor, indifference, inherent, in a higher place, places, political, Politicians, scandals, statements, The Code, The Statement, to a higher place
«War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
assume, Christian, especially, on the other hand, starting, terrible
«Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion... while truth again reverts to a new minority.»
«We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.»
«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.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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assume, asteroid, big, common, frog, hammer, hammered, hammering, hammers, hammer in, happens, hits, involving, judging, laboratories, laboratory, pretty, realistic, simulation, simulations, sledge, The Frogs
«When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
assume, generally, mistaken
«What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
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allowing, anticipating, assume, immense, Mass
«The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
assume, devil, pleasing, shape, the Devil