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“I had just heard tales that the Valkyrie were large warriors, akin to Amazons.”“If you’re the sole survivor of an army attacked by us, are you going to say we had our asses handed to us by petite, ...”
“Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.”
“My point is this — you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples on my tray, and thought 'hippie.' Then, from 'hippie' they thought 'druggie.' From there it went t...”
“There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception.”
“You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.”
“It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don’t yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.”
“Just remember: If you make unfounded assumptions before choosing a path, you’re blindly sauntering along.”
“Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you're liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their palling around with ...”
“When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.”
“It always matters who the storyteller is. It’s a lens.”
“The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.”
“You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.”
“Don’t build roadblocks out of assumptions.”
“Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.”
“Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.”
“It makes Brooke feel strange in her stomach. It is like the feeling when she reads a book like the one about the man with the bomb, or thinks a sentence, just any old sentence like: the girl ran ac...”
“Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?” Nanny nodded. “Oh, yes.” There was no shame in it. Sometimes there wasn’t time to do anything else but take a flying ...”
“It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at Fren...”
“Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.”
