Assuming Quotes - Page 9

• Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

  John Stuart Mill

  Liberty, Purpose, Action

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Dating is tricky these days. Everyone plays by different dating rules, so don't assume anything.

  Andrew W.K.

  Play, Dating, Different

  "Andrew W.K. And MAKJ On Partying As A Couple". Interview With Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Games, Odds

  Source: thequietus.com

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• This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

  Malcolm X

  Black And White, Race, Two

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.

  Michael Bierut

  Thinking, Addresses, Keyboards

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rain, Years, Done

  Source: inters.org

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• As for meetings, I think the President-elect [Donald Trump] should be given an opportunity to first form his administration and assume office. Meetings will come next.

  Vladimir Putin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul.

  Peter Adamson

  Soul, Function, Intellect

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Some of us say, "Lord knows how much I can bear". I think you can assume that you can bear more than you have a right to bear.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Thinking, Bears, Lord

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Always Trying, Wrong Things

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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• Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface or not, and I am not. But another thing is when we met, there still wasn't exactly a gay/straight divide in the minds of a lot of straight people. There weren't any gay people, as far as we knew, at Yale.

  Kevin Sessums

  Writing, Gay, Yale

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe it was my father's turn, but then I realized that everyone would jump on that and assume I'd had some falling out with my mother, which is absolutely not the case.

  Carrie Fisher

  Mother, Father, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

  Gaspar Noe

  Animal, Thinking, Jungle

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

  Roxane Gay

  Needs, Matter, Reason

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

  Roxane Gay

  Character, Race, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Often Is, Opposites, Boss

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.

  Willie Parker

  Mean, College, Law

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Winning, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Stupid, Years, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If I had to guess what the future's going to look like for me - assuming it's not an orange jumpsuit in a hole - I think I'm going to alternate between tech and policy.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Orange, Looks

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• There are surely many ways that [media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking] happens, but we can note at the most obvious level the way in which forms of resistance or violence get cast as "conflicts" that assume two sides that are fighting only against one another.

  Judith Butler

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

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• I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Running, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

  Gore Vidal

  Views, Democracy, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.

  William Gibson

  Men, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.heddels.com

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