#assumes

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#always #anything #assumes #been #conscience

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him. ↗

— David Gallagher

#assumes #audience #bad #bad guy #going

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy. ↗

— Gennaro Angiulo

#forfeits #leadership #man #mercy #right

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!' ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#assumes #cigarette #cocktail #dressed #everyone

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves. ↗

— Allen West

#assumes #best #better #care #each

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#continuing #dialogue #different #different points #education

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#before #cowardly #denounce #divine #ended

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#anxious #assumes #classic #diplomatic #disagree