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Letter "A" » assumes
«I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.»
«Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction»
Author: John Cage
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About:
America and Americans,
Food
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Keywords:
added,
amounts,
appearance,
assumes,
delay,
Eat It,
nourishment,
poison,
provides,
putrefaction
«Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.»
«Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.»
«Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.»
«An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.»
«Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.»
«As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.»
«Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t»
Author: Samuel Butler
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About:
Authority
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Keywords:
assumes,
commands,
complies,
complying,
cowards,
fume,
fumes,
giddy,
intoxicates,
invade,
magistrates,
sot,
sots,
The Base
«From the narrow vision of 'individual need', man must voyage out into the broad vision of the 'Universal'. When a drop of water falls into the Ocean, it loses its narrow individuality, its name and form, and assumes the form, name and taste of the Ocean itself. If it seeks to live separately as a 'drop', it will soon evaporate and be reduced to non-existence.»