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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Love Is, Happiness, Jealousy, Mind

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt. Larry Elder

War, People, Stupid, Wrong, Reckless

Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself. Patch Adams

Love, Yourself, Character, Love Yourself

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf

Women, War, Book, Important, Feelings

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. Aleister Crowley

Science, Doctor, People, World, Guilty

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. Ray Dalio

Future, Think, You, Know, First, Hold

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers. Amy Waldman

Motivational, Knowledge, Community

As soon as you hear a proposition, the creative brain in humans assumes for the moment that it's true, and starts trying to find evidence. It's what computer scientists in the old days used to call 'Fifo:' first in, first out. The first piece of information that gets in has a privileged position, even if it's misinformation. Daniel Levitin

Moment, Brain, Creative, Information

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. Jimmy Sangster

Face, Mind, Evil, Patterns, Benevolence

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

Man, Trust, Property, He, Should, Public

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.' Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Man, Men, Responsibility, Say, He, Chief

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking. Deepak Chopra

Stars, Science, Sun, Looking, Moon, Most

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. Yoko Ono

Woman, Situation, Everyone, Her, About

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. Guru Nanak

Man, Woman, Ocean, River, Law, She

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. James Madison

Government, Doubt, Will, Misery, Favor

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells. Lorrie Moore

Good, Food, Good Food, Brain, Way, Cells

Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening. Arthur Slade

Me, Believe, You, Powerful, Psycho, Want

The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God. Godfrey Winn

Beauty, God, Daily, Job, Service, New

There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. Giordano Bruno

Nature, Mother, Light, Simple, Universe

The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation. Bob Barr

Vacation, Government, Meeting, American

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life. Samuel Alexander

Life, Nature, Business, Detail, Mental

Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed. Scott Adams

Better, Strategy, Get, Bosses, Rotten

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate. Richard P. Feynman

World, True, Physics, See, Equally

President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the grinding Syrian civil war to the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin to how to deal with ISIS as the terrorist army retreats in Iraq. Peter Bergen

War, Army, Challenges, Security, Office

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Henry Kissinger

Men, Vision, Feeling, Perfect, Blind

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. Vaclav Havel

Way, Drama, Only, Order, Surprising

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