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When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
~ Elaine Chao
I told a journalist that Dave seemed quite psychopathic (I didn't know a thing about psychopaths but I assumed that that was the sort of thing they might do).
~ Jon Ronson
I'd underestimated him. I assumed anyone who started out gut-punching you in an elevator couldn't have all that much else in his arsenal. For instance, I had no idea he could smile, let alone at such an inappropriate time.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I observed with assumed innocence that no man was safe from trouble in this world.
~ Joseph Conrad
The fighting over Norplant assumed that Black women's reproduction is a proper arena for social regulation.
~ Dorothy Roberts
Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, so he assumed that the Total Perspective Vortex was not fun.
~ Douglas Adams
when people knock on your door, credibility is assumed and fees are whatever you say they are.
~ Alan Weiss
The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.
~ Nelson Mandela
Areas where there is a lack of data, or a lack of understanding, are automatically assumed to belong, by default, to God.
~ Richard Dawkins
The only memory I have was how the wrestler's balls that were thrust into my face left a saltiness on my lips. At first I assumed it was from the tacos, and then I realised I'd not eaten any today. I
~ Karl Pilkington
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.
~ Otto Weininger
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
~ Don Ellis
Nor should it be assumed that machines are not capable of deception. On the contrary, the criticism "that a machine cannot have much diversity of behaviour is just a way of saying that it cannot have much storage capacity.
~ David Leavitt
God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.
~ S. T. Joshi
We live in a very peculiar world. Democracy isn't discussed, as if it was taken for granted, as if democracy had taken God's place, who is also not discussed.
~ Jose Saramago
Should 'COVID-19' be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test? [No], COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. [Emphasis added.]
~ Alex Berenson
purity of a sort is easily had where responsibilities are not assumed. The
~ Richard Hofstadter
all assumed he died too.' (leo) 'Beause he did,' NIco said. 'Then a few days later,' Will continued, 'his scroll came fluttering into camp on the wind...' 'I still have it.' Nico rummaged through the pockets of his bomber jacket. 'I look at it whenever I want to get angry.
~ Rick Riordan
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
~ David Ross Brower
Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.
~ Jean Liedloff
We are assumed to be rather hopeless -- swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.
~ Charlie Sykes
It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.
~ Bob Hawke
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.
~ Epictetus