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Related MIGUEL RUIZ We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We mu... DARREN SHAN We're not making any assumptions. What his intentions were, we don't know. ANGELO BITSIS Since we won't be building any more planes, we need to know how long the strike will last before we ... CHAZ BICKERS DON MIGUEL RUIZ People make assumptions and don't take time to ask about individual experiences. We don't like to ad... BEN HINES We are not making any assumptions in this storm. We are asking questions. DAVID PAULISON MIGUEL RUIZ The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Most of us make assumptions about how someone will relate to us, and they are often unfounded. MICHELE JENNAE We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the... RICHARD WISEMAN DEMI LOVATO JOHN HENRY NEWMAN We aren't going to comment or make any assumptions until we meet with the company. JOSEPH TIBERI When we arrive on Monday, we may or may not know the full extent of Hurricane Rita. The stock market... LARRY WACHTEL Just having been through the double catastrophic disaster, we learned not to make any assumptions ab... DEBBIE WING I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M “A question is the root to all evil, from there we can make assumptions!” THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER ABHISHEK KUMAR I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assump... CALLIE KHOURI JAMES COOK We know we're competitive, which is a huge weight off our minds, we know the boat is competitive aga... DEAN BARKER ALLYSON SCHWARTZ We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we ... LIZ NEWMAN EVAN DAVIS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer. I DONT KNOW When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entitie... CHELSIE SHAKESPEARE We have the challenge of an 18 month integration to go through and when we look at our assumptions i... JOE MOGLIA RALPH WALDO EMERSON By using the systems we are developing in the habitat, we are both testing our ideas and validating ... BILL CLANCEY We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they rea... ALAN YOUNG We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO KARIN SLAUGHTER Society tells us that we all need to win. That's how we make ourselves better. But when you get righ... DAVID BOUDOLF A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI I think this whole road trip has pretty much built character on our team. It?s brought us close toge... BARBARA TURNER I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we... DEREK SIVERS When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES The coaching staff has worked us. We are a pretty self-driven team as well, but they know what we ne... NICHOLAUS SEARCY What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in th... R.M. ENGELHARDT (TALON) MARISSA MEYER BILLY JOEL MARK RYDELL We work too much on assumptions in times of desperation; until proven wrong, we are adamant and diso... TINMASUN Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER We?re not here to point fingers or blame anyone, but we are here to make our elected officials know ... CARMEN BOUCHER DOUGLAS COUPLAND We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist... VERONICA ROSSI When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) LOUISE L. HAY RAYMOND CARVER I think when we do the budget, we make a number of assumptions, and that's one of them. We assume th... GREG BIRD When we constantly react to assumptions and hearsay, bad things happen. CHARLES F. GLASSMAN Americans are not particularly adept at working globally. They tend to make false assumptions about ... JAY CROTTS We have to make better decisions. We need to know when to be quick and when to be patient. KEVIN TONEY VOLTAIRE CRAIG GROESCHEL why should we feel ashamed of what has happend ,,,, we didnt ask for it ,,, are abuser forced it upo... GRACE MARC ANDREESSEN JERRY RICE GEORGE SAUNDERS We know what we need to do; we have guys who can score goals. They look to us to make sure we don't ... JED ORTMEYER MURIEL BARBERY We do not want to work off of assumptions. LEGISLATOR DENNIS KORCE We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back o... BOB BOUGHNER GERALD R. FORD Once assumptions are set in play they tend to justify additional assumptions. STEVEN REDHEAD SAMUEL JOHNSON It has to be fluid -- unless we are completely brilliant or in a market that is completely stagnant.... HOWARD DRESNER JENNY HAN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO But we can act and not react, ... We need to know where we are going before we can make decisions. SUSAN ADAMS MAC THORNBERRY TOM HANKS We want to make sure that our testing process is absolute integrity. Parents need to know that the a... TERRY ABBOTT All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,NISHIKANT NICK HORNBY If that happened, we certainly didn't feel it. We felt a lot of energy. People make assumptions abou... JEF POLLOCK If we are to make progress, it is essential that our partners (the US) show much greater flexibility... ROB DAVIES SHEENA IYENGAR We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON STEVE JOBS SUNDAY ADELAJA We do not cry forever. Much as we were when we were once born. We cry because we need to know and fe... MAICHEE SUMMER We ask the kids, what's your job? What's your role? What are you trying to do? The girls are buying ... JEFF DAY ELIZABETH THORNTON T.S. ELIOT CORRIE TEN BOOM They have come through all season. I know I can rely on them to make the plays when we need to. SAM BLANK CINDY SHEEHAN We know we can (win), ... although they (US) will make an effort to beat us and show us how they hav... JARED BORGETTI HAROLD TAYLOR
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MIGUEL At the end of the day, as a grown man, I don't really care what the sexuality of the next man is... MIGUEL I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble. MIGUEL I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They repr... MIGUEL I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life. MIGUEL You can't go down 1-2-3 in two innings in a game like that. You can't after spending the past two da... AUGUSTINE RUIZ I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good t... AUGUSTINE RUIZ Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa... AUGUSTINE RUIZ I am not satisfied with going from blowout losses to just losses. We are getting better as a team, b... AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think the team is still hung up on what happened in Santa Rosa. AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think it was one and fifteen? 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We worked hard and the statistics show it, but we weren't really playing ... CAROLINA RUIZ No estamos en un buen nivel y cada vez estamos peores. El resultado en contra nos pone pensar en el ... CARLOS RUIZ For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll face... CARLOS RUIZ I think the fans are sad, because they come to see FC Dallas, and we can win at home, CARLOS RUIZ I booked a flight last-minute to El Paso ... and the weather was gorgeous. It didn't seem like there... CARLOS RUIZ It's hard you know, ... It's a lot of games - this team played last Wednesday in D.C. - it was a har... CARLOS RUIZ It's OK if I score, but it's much better if my team wins. CARLOS RUIZ It's the other Cup -- Lamar Hunt -- so it's not a big deal, CARLOS RUIZ We had less than a week to get a team together. We don't even have a head coach yet. CARLOS RUIZ I work to score goals -- you know, I haven't scored a goal yet this season. But I want to make an ef... CARLOS RUIZ It's hard to start on the bench but these things happen. But the MLS season continues. I really want... CARLOS RUIZ The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed p... RAUL RUIZ The best [analogy] of what the UC Merced campus means to the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare County is... FRED RUIZ Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and re... HECTOR RUIZ In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a... HECTOR RUIZ Ray Benson, our good friend from Asleep at the Wheel, brought this together. ALEX RUIZ It's also an expression of how we feel as a family, as a unit, and how we want the world to feel as ... ALEX RUIZ We have a warehouse of music and a warehouse of talent in this band that we just want to give and ke... ALEX RUIZ We pretty much let them know that if they get the league's top seed there's a great possibility of g... CINTHIA RUIZ We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from ... ABRAHAM RUIZ I'm very happy to receive this type of recognition. ANIBAL RUIZ It's true that we're very worried about this new injury to Roque. I hope he can be at the World Cup.... ANIBAL RUIZ This is the result of two years' hard work and the players have been rewarded. ANIBAL RUIZ By delivering a complete service - from integrating and managing the service to providing the actual... ANGEL RUIZ It's the Mecca. It's every fisherman's dream. JUAN RUIZ The industry is healthy. Customers and partners that have elected to partner with AMD are seeing the... HECTOR RUIZ It's complicated, when it's raining like this, there's a lot of traffic and you got your speeders, w... CARLOS RUIZ 'For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll face... CARLOS RUIZ I'm glad he's here because of all the chaos that went on with the other storm, CARLOS RUIZ Carlos has a reputation for diving, and we've talked to him about it, but it's something that he's d... CARLOS RUIZ A lot of it is non-verbal, so it translates really well. RENé RUIZ I give a voice to the voiceless, keep an eye on border injustices and watch the ever-changing cultur... HECTOR RUIZ I like the food. Raviolis. Cereal. Salad. Um, I don't like salad. It's green. CARLOS RUIZ I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding tr... RAUL RUIZ It's the other Cup -- Lamar Hunt -- so it's not a big deal, ... My hamstring, it's killing me. I tri... CARLOS RUIZ A group called Toxic Audio would be the last place a person would expect to find the types of a capp... RENé RUIZ Opening the AMD Greater China headquarters in Zhongguancun Science Park will put AMD at the heart of... HECTOR RUIZ It was a sloppy game on both parts. The bad thing is someone has got to lose, and the good thing is ... TONY RUIZ 'For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll fac... CARLOS RUIZ I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving. RAUL RUIZ Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do... RAUL RUIZ In this new world, with smartphones and tablets and cloud computing, things are moving around fast. HECTOR RUIZ It's wrong that members of Congress can purchase luxury airfare with taxpayer money when many fa... RAUL RUIZ I don't know if the girls kind of expected an easy game or what. They're pretty upset with how they ... CINTHIA RUIZ They got a little comfortable. They hadn't been handed a loss in league so they didn't know what it ... CINTHIA RUIZ It's difficult to find people in the valley that have the skills that we need to help our business g... FRED RUIZ We believe we're making significant strides to building a sustainable growth engine for the foreseea... HECTOR RUIZ We have to change the attitudes of companies. HECTOR RUIZ [Technologically speaking AMD had been catching up considerably in the last few years, its CEO obser... HECTOR RUIZ AMD and China share a deep mutual respect for the ability of technology to promote economic and educ... HECTOR RUIZ [Intel argued that it hasn't violated any law or committed any wrongdoing. Intel said the AMD lawsui... HECTOR RUIZ Our customers and partners are interested in two things -- innovation and HECTOR RUIZ Our customers and partners are interested in two things -- innovation and societal impact, ... By ga... HECTOR RUIZ We deserve to have a significantly larger share of the market than we already have. The only thing t... HECTOR RUIZ the strongest position we've ever been in. HECTOR RUIZ With this new release, customers will be able to issue online shipping instructions in addition to m... GABRIEL RUIZ The hospital is really full now and that's my worry. We really don't know what's going to happen thi... HELEN RUIZ This close to the parade route I am very afraid that we're going to be inundated so we did all we th... HELEN RUIZ The hospital is really full now and that's my worry. It's a very big worry and it's a very big conce... HELEN RUIZ It's going to be a major problem. HELEN RUIZ They put the French doors in especially for us. The kids just love them. LAURA RUIZ The mattress standard is an important step forward for consumer safety. A reasonable standard for up... LAURA RUIZ The American Fire Safety Council strongly supports this activity and believes that as electronic tec... LAURA RUIZ We applaud the commitment of companies that act voluntarily to build this added level of safety into... LAURA RUIZ I believe we should show some support but I also agree with the church's way of going about it, inst... JUAN RUIZ We are developing the electoral component of the immigrant movement, and we will all see the results... JUAN RUIZ Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cow... JUAN RUIZ The initial thought was to go after a common set of components and the most common way in which they... JOACHIM RUIZ It came together as an awareness that as you had more and more bits, the issue was in testing all th... JOACHIM RUIZ She was getting up in age, too, but you couldn't tell her that. PAULA RUIZ It's always kind of stuck with us. We grew up together out there every summer. TONY RUIZ Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was ... MIGUEL SYJUCO I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogge... MIGUEL SYJUCO LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid,... MIGUEL NICOLELIS When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me wan... MIGUEL ZENON The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and g... MIGUEL SYJUCO 'Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitt... MIGUEL SYJUCO With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to milliseco... MIGUEL NICOLELIS Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliche... MIGUEL SYJUCO My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders. MIGUEL INDURAIN I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, y... MIGUEL INDURAIN To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is. MIGUEL INDURAIN I've always thought that jazz needs to be heard by a wider audience in Puerto Rico. I want to pu... MIGUEL ZENON Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the rec... MIGUEL INDURAIN It's the first time an exoskeleton has been controlled by brain activity and offered feedback to... MIGUEL NICOLELIS I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I ha... MIGUEL FERRER I've played the drums for so long, I can't imagine saying goodbye to it. MIGUEL FERRER LUIS MIGUEL Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can... MIGUEL SYJUCO Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart... MIGUEL NICOLELIS We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to r... MIGUEL NICOLELIS LUIS MIGUEL He was a symbol of Cuban fishing and of human brotherhood, thanks to all of his years of friendship ... MIGUEL DIAZ We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium. MIGUEL CABRERA We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writi... MIGUEL FERRER I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a s... MIGUEL CABRERA I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor at... MIGUEL SYJUCO Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. MIGUEL HERNáNDEZ LUIS MIGUEL [Olivo praised Padres hitting coach Dave Magadan, who, as a minor league instructor, had given Olivo... MIGUEL OLIVO We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another thro... MIGUEL NICOLELIS My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and... MIGUEL FERRER I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live ... MIGUEL COTTO I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowled... MIGUEL FERRER I don't see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking fo... MIGUEL SYJUCO Eventually, brain implants will become as common as heart implants. I have no doubt about that. MIGUEL NICOLELIS LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL LUIS MIGUEL Just spanking, yell at them . . . like any parent would. MIGUEL RODRIGUEZ
If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumpt... 
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take th... 
In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’... 
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
Don’t make assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Com... 
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. 
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! 
I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do... 
We know we want to support our troops. We want to make sure that they have all the equipment they ne... 
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're cry... 
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know th... 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, s... 
Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... 
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of o... 
The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You h... 
We are this fucking stick in the end... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpl... 
and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk... 
We cannot wish for that we know not. 
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 
We have to try hard and liberate ourselves from assumptions. 
People are on to us right now. They're got our number. We have to regroup and start doing something ... 
Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we a... 
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we ju... 
In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ... 
We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us. 
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful 
And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pret... 
I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with sk... 
We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... 
Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We oft... 
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being W... 
We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit 
If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived no... 
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec... 
There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of Hi... 
I know that they are in heaven, ... and I know that that's why this movement is growing because we h... 
I'm just here to help. We're here to make sure our employees are fine, are whole. When we leave toda... 
I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and ... 
Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned i... 
There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. 
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards 
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad ... 
I was not very happy to have to change insurance plans. Instead of scrapping it, which I considered,...