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Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Negotiation
Dean Acheson

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
Arts and Artists
Lester Bangs

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Gambling
Heywood Broun

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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
Congress
Georg Hegel

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When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Jefferson

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When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness
Happiness
George Orwell

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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Things and Little Things
Marcel Proust

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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
Happiness
John D. Rockefeller

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People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
Television
Diane Sawyer

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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Virtue
William Shakespeare

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The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
Devil
William Shakespeare

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
Friends and Friendship
The Talmud

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.
Wisdom
Source Unknown

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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
Army and Navy
George Washington

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun