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I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.
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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore
Future
You
Change
Experience
Before
Assuming
Everyday
Our
Those
Unprecedented
Something
Exceptions
Generally
Never
Safe
Vulnerable
Climate
Climate Change
Improbable
Going
Human
Human Beings
Happen
Happened
Confusing
Beings
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Pat Paulsen
Fly
Country
Control
Assuming
Circles
Right-Wing
Would
Wing
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Left
Left-Wing
Either
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Right
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell
Assuming
Alike
Both
Catholic
Opponent
Intelligent
Cannot
Communist
Honest
Knowing and assuming are two different things.
Mark Hunt
Assuming
Knowing
Different
Different Things
Things
Two
Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?
Jordan Peterson
Relationship
You
Reality
Assuming
Fail
How
False
Anything
Such A Thing
Thing
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith
God
Power
Master
Assuming
Relation
Approve
Guilty
System
Absolute
Absolute Power
Towards
His
Cannot
Place
Which
Servitude
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley
God
Man
Will
Matters
Own
Assuming
Take
Misses
Knows
Course
Becoming
How
Smug
Many
Things
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Suze Orman
You
Maturity
Will
Assuming
Assured
Back
Unlike
Direct
Date
Finite
Individual
Never
Investment
Most
Principal
Traded
Been
Get
Fan
Hold
Your
Actively
Fund
Default
Bond
Funds
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?
Albert J. Nock
Nature
Spiritual
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Soul
Thought
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Assuming
Appropriate
Distinct
Unnatural
Knowing
Without
Does
His
Conditions
Die
Might
Should
Body
Why
For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
Alex Graves
Great
You
Money
Pilot
Matter
Assuming
Enough
Enough Money
System
Someone
Something
Properly
Studio
Talent
Until
Make
Making
Trying
Just
Maneuver
Your
Ground
Standing
Keep
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