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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  Steven Biko

  Evil, Majority, Arrogant

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another, there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

  Albert J. Nock

  Giving, Social, States

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• All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.

  Joseph Murphy

  Suggestions, Facts, Belief

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.18, GENERAL PRESS

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• Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption
  and watch the world play its part
  relative to to its fulfillment.

  Neville Goddard

  Believe, Reality, Play

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• You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are already experiencing what you desire. That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.

  Neville Goddard

  Reality, Ideas, Feelings

  Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being all things are possible.

  Neville Goddard

  Creative, Unity, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point of ecstasy, you no longer want it. Your imaginal act is as much a creative act as a physical one wherein man halts, shrinks and is blessed, for as man creates his own likeness, so does your imaginal act transform itself into the likeness of your assumption. If, however, you do not reach the point of satisfaction, repeat the action over and over again until you feel as though you touched it and virtue went out of you.

  Neville Goddard

  Blessed, Men, Creative

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• I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Phones, Conversation

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• The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.

  Lynn Margulis

  Thinking, Wish, Mutation

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• The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.

  Nicholas Eberstadt

  Long, Population, Generations

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• Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.

  Adam Garfinkle

  Book, Passion, Tired

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• If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.

  Gerhard

  Bondage, Preoccupation, Checks

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• I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

  Robin Hobb

  Children, Writing, Easy

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• Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

  Adam Grant

  Book, Believe, Skills

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• We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of diversity. The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

  Ken Robinson

  Art, Math, Discipline

  Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.166, Penguin UK

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• Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Healing, Our World

  "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

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• Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Manipulation, Instruction

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• We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Love, Evil, Balance

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”

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• I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Eye, Thinking, Red

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• It seems to me that, as it is usually presented, the current orthodoxy about the cosmic order is the product of governing assumptions that are unsupported, and that it flies in the face of common sense.

  Thomas Nagel

  Order, Common Sense, Orthodoxy

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Errors, Creative

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• We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

  Darren Shan

  Things In Life, Assuming, Sometimes

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• It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Voting, Facts

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• The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Mistake, Writing

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• The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Thinking, Long

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