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I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

~Don Ellis

Topics: Am Assumed Audience Come Compromising Expect Interested Level Make Mass Music Not Interested Up I Am

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I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Actually Anybody Anything Assumed Because Ever Everybody Eyes Going Hell His Inside Kid Knew Must Only Open Outside Seen Something Sure Walk Who Wide

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When Steve Jobs toured Xerox PARC and saw computers running the first operating system that used Windows and a mouse, he assumed he was looking at a new way to work a personal computer. He brought the concept back to Cupertino and created the Mac, then Bill Gates followed suit, and the rest is history.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Assumed Back Bill Bill Gates Brought Computer Computers Concept Created First Followed Gates He History Jobs Looking Mac Mouse New New Way Operating Operating System Personal Rest Running Saw Steve Steve Jobs Suit System Then Toured Used Way Windows Work Xerox

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I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Arrangements Assumed Child Complexities Etiquette Generally Granted Learn Learning Lived Manners More Obligation Piece Question Racial Social Taken Taken For Granted Them Timeless Were Where World

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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Assumed Containing Democracy Genes Ideas Means Violence

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When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

~Elaine Chao

Topics: Assumed Congress Corps First Men Only Peace Peace Corps Proposed Some Volunteers Would

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For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New Testament.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: About Assumed Disciples Four Gospels His Jesus Most Nearly New New Testament Only People Sources Testament Tradition Were Years

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It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.

~Eli Roth

Topics: Assumed Bad First First One Going Good Horror Just Never Sequel

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The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Assumed Between Diplomatic Discussion Every Every Nation Justice Nation Nations Theoretical Willingness

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The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

~Elizabeth Blackwell

Topics: Aspect Assumed Attraction Degree Doctor Fight Gradually Great Idea Immense Me Moral Possessed Struggle Winning

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