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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

  Chip Kidd

  Strong, Character, Thinking

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• Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

  Dave Ramsey

  Thinking, Long, Cost

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• What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?

  T. D. Jakes

  Winning, Appreciate, Victory

  T. D. Jakes (2000). “The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord”, Berkley

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• Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

  Jon Rappoport

  Believe, Thinking, Yesterday

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• I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Running, Wall, Smart

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• One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the best thing it can do under the circumstances. Consequently, if you are overweight, you may reasonably assume that the extra fat itself is your body's best adjustment to the circumstances you are providing.

  Jill Johnson

  Medicine, Doe, Body

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• I am ready to serve the people of Afghanistan, particularly in order to restore peace. I will be ready to assume any duty at the service of my people.

  Ahmad

  Order, People, Duty

  Meeting with European legislators, June 11, 000.

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• If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle…. Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Thinking, Data, Giving

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• An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

  David Berlinski

  Steps, Enough, Easy

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• And we didn't have cell phones. If you made plans to meet someone in a snow storm, and they didn't show up, you just had to assume they were devoured by wolves and go on with your life.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Graduation, Phones

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• [People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people in their rooms downloading pornography.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

  Abraham Pais

  Moving, Games, Would Be

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

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• Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Government, People, Young

  "Singapore's Founding Father Lee Kuan Yew Critically Ill" by Anna Fifield, www.smh.com.au. March 19, 2015.

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• Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Christian, White, People

  "American Leaders Swooning Over Singapore’s Thuggish Founder Are Blind Politically, Not Just Morally" by Jim Sleeper, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2015.

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• Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

  Maurice Jarre

  Thinking, Usual, Film

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• Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Expression, Needs

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• Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

  Harvey Cox

  Religious, Responsibility, Men

  Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.258, Princeton University Press

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• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Motivation, Inspiration, Dark

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• Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

  Garry Wills

  Government, Self, Essence

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• I expect the audience to assume TV is stupid. I accept that it's my job to overcome it.

  Dan Harmon

  Jobs, Stupid, Overcoming

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• And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada.

  Rick Mercer

  Support, Canada, Bleeding

  "Rick Mercer, Hot On The Canadian Campaign Trail". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 23, 2011.

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• Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.

  Warsan Shire

  Integrity, People, Say Anything

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• The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.

  Herman E. Daly

  Real, Self, Behaviour

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• It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we have no shortage of perfectly good reasons for why we just happen to be doing the same thing as those other people; they mindlessly conform, but we mindfully choose. This doesn't mean that we're all conformists in denial. It means that we regularly fail to recognize that others' thoughts and behaviors are just as complex and varied as our own. Rather than being alone in a crowd of sheep, we're all individuals in sheep's clothing.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mean, Perfectly Good, Sheep

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