Assuming Quotes - Page 9

• We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect an institutional bias in criminal justice, but what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement.

  Mike Pence

  Jobs, Men, Errors

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Media, Liberty, Lines

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• We, the monarchs, are undoubtedly constants in a constantly changing world. Because we have always been there, but also because we do not get involved in everyday politics. We are aware of the political changes in our societies, but we don't comment on them. This is where we assume a unique position.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Unique, Political, Everyday

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Religious, Responsibility, Government

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• It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).

  Elliott Sober

  Pain, Mind, Different

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.

  Bill Burr

  Fun, Knows, Ifs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Writing, Adventure, Class

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.

  Barack Obama

  People, Trying, Patriot

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as critically engaged citizens rather than assume that knowledge and education are merely about the learning of skills - a reductive concept that substitutes training for education and reinforces the flight from reason and the goose-stepping reflexes of an authoritarian mindset.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Thinking, Skills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

  Michelle Goldberg

  Men, Self, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it. I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Trying, Stuff, Helpful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.

  Indira Gandhi

  Years, Cities, Long

  Source: sangam.org

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• I don't think we can dignify documents dumped by Wikileaks and just assume that they're all accurate and true.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Wikileaks, Accurate

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.

  Mark Hulbert

  Past, Discipline, Long

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• [Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Roots, Desire

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• My worst flight was flying between Macau and Osaka in 2007. The turbulence was so bad that the cabin crew were assuming their crash positions. I had more than a bit of a sweat on.

  Greg Rutherford

  Sweat, Flying, Cabins

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opportunity, Differences, Purpose

  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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