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What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.
Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.
People always assume that things are just handed to me, but I've had to prove myself, every inch of the way.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.
If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.
You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do.
I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.
I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
People assume that I came back to Washington because of the Post, but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job.
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.
The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.
Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist.
I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.