#assumed

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#assumed #because #black #children #feminist

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#assumed #buddies #hop #i #just

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#be true #been #divided #false #generally

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#assumed #before #behold #conditions #far

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. ↗

— George Washington

#assumed #citizen #did #lay #soldier

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. ↗

— Taliesin

#been #before #consistent #form #i

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

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