#assume

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#anything #assume #balance #busy #dry

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case. ↗

— Ed Harris

#always #assume #based #case #criticizing

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird. ↗

— Melissa Joan Hart

#boy #girl #having #i #learning

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. ↗

— Dave Heineman

#excellence #future #guarantee #i #our

In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect in this case. I assumed that my involvement in the investigation was over. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#assumed #carter #case #confirmed #counsel

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#deputies #few #many #often #only

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.' ↗

— Katherine Heigl

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