#assume

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not. ↗

— Miranda Lambert

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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. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

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On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

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It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context. ↗

— Christopher Darden

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Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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

— George Washington

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