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• We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

  Eric Hoffer

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  Tags in Assume, Contagious

• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  Evelyn Glennie

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  Tags in Walk, Assume

• People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team – make-up, costume and a driver – but usually, in a war zone, there’s only me and the cameraman.

  Kate Adie

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  Tags in Make-Up, Assume, Usually, Backup

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

  Dean Acheson

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• Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have – by disrupting that order – a way of surprising.

  Vaclav Havel

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  Tags in Surprising, Assume

• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  H. L. Mencken

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  Tags in Assume, Fool

• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Leadership, Progress

  Tags in Steady, Designated, Assume