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"I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." »Walt Whitman
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"Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war." »Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
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"Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME." »Anonymous
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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not." »William Shakespeare
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"It's such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it." »Hugh Elliott
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"The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right." »Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof." »G. H. Lewes, Physiology of Common Life
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"By ignorance is pride increased; those must assume who know the least." »Gay
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"Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more." »Terry Thomas
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"You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence." »Leo Szilard, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
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"The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape." »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
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"Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes." »The Talmud
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"The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." »William Shakespeare
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"When you go to a party at somebody's house, don't automatically assume that the drinks are free. Ask, and ask often." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Six
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"People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad." »Dave Barry
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"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens." »Brooks Atkinson
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"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future." »Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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"Assume in adversity a countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate thy temper." »Livy
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"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed." »William John Bennett
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"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?" »Nicolas Martin
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"The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form." »Kabbalah
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"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance." »Niccola Sebastiani
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"Today's society has decided it's better to assume, deceive or lie to ourselves to spare our own feelings. When accepted the truth will set us free. Anything aside from that will torment us. Feelings are made from thoughts; thoughts can be controled. We fall in love because we THINK about how wonderful someone is; we hate because we can't stop THINKING about what they did to us. In the end, WE control our own thoughts and feelings." »Shannon Stewart
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"Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals." »Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
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"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer." »Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble." »Peter S. Jennison
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