Assumption Quotes - Page 18

• We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

  James B. Utt

  Medicine, Care, Here And Now

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• The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Saws, Firsts

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• ... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.

  William Vickrey

  Government, Availability, Analysis

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• Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.

  Douglas Merrill

  People, Focus, Use

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• The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

  Peter A. Levine

  Past, Suffering, Looks

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• Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

  Robert Ardrey

  Men, Antiques, Weapons

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.

  Eustace Haydon

  Life, Responsibility, Past

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• Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

  Richard Koch

  Drawing, Boards, Needs

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.132, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Shapes, Assuming

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

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• You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!

  Steven Moffat

  Dog, Character, People

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

  Jason Jordan

  Pipeline, Assuming, Bigger

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• Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Views, Different, Assuming

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• Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

  John Milton

  Sex, Enmity, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.

  David Platt

  Order, Desire, Tendencies

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• The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

  David Platt

  Dream, Accepting, Assets

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• We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

  George Barna

  Religion, Way, Strategy

  George Barna (1995). “Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel”, Gospel Light Publications

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• The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Gratitude, Strong, Grateful

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• Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

  John W. Gardner

  Art, Creativity, Practice

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• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Past, Thinking

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• Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Stress, People

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• We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wisdom, Assuming, Never Assume

  George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

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• I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

  Clive James

  Reading, Writing, Interesting

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• The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  War, Let It Go, Progress

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.188, Routledge

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• Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.

  Brooke Westcott

  Ideas, Together, Too Much

  "The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History".

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• Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

  Lynne Reid Banks

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

  Lynne Reid Banks (1995). “The Secret of the Indian”

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