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Assumption Quotes
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. - Germaine Greer Quotes
Ive been worked over by the English press because theres an assumption that my politics are identical with my wifes, and for that matter that my wifes politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago. - Stephen Rea Quotes
And the Russians certainly dont have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume shes a crook. And thats me, the nice American. The assumption that you cant make money honestly is a killer. - Esther Dyson Quotes
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. - George C Williams Quotes
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. - Warren Buffett Quotes
If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels. - Fred Ward Quotes
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. - Jean Kerr Quotes
I think thats created a healthy environment. The comparisons to \"ER\" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case. - Adam Arkin Quotes
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously. - Edward Grey Quotes
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville Wright Quotes
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. - Carter G Woodson Quotes
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. - Eduard Hanslick Quotes
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. - H L Mencken Quotes
Theres an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact theyre not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the childs family and often the village. - Roma Downey Quotes
I thin many peoples deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if theres an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted. - Robyn Hitchcock Quotes
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states rights is gone. Theres no support for it in the Supreme Court and theres no support for it in public opinion. - James Q Wilson Quotes
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. - E O Wilson Quotes
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own accuracy. - Paul Watzlawick Quotes
There can be no assumption that todays majority is \"right\" and the Amish and others like them are \"wrong.\" A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different. - Warren E Burger Quotes
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. - Peter Gay Quotes
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people. - Joe Slovo Quotes
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, theres usually an intuitive assumption underlying them thats wrong. - Jeff Hawkins Quotes
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past. - Frank Knight Quotes
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research. - Chauncey Wright Quotes
The general assumption of coherence of the world, which as we know forms the basis of all science, provides the means to survey such types. - Wilhelm Ostwald Quotes
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. - Stephen Bayley Quotes
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. - Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. - Thomas Huxley Quotes
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. - Gary Becker Quotes
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored. - Raymond E Feist Quotes
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