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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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• I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Political, Doubt

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• Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Taken, Winning, Opportunity

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.

  Chaz Bono

  Men, Issues, Identity

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• It is my conviction that if any professional biologist will take adequate time to examine carefully the assumptions upon which the macro-evolution doctrine rests, and the observational and laboratory evidence that bears on the problem of origins, he/she will conclude that there are substantial reasons for doubting the truth of this doctrine. Moreover, I believe that a scientifically sound creationist view of origins is not only possible, but it is to be preferred over the evolutionary one.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Believe, Views, Doubt

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• I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.

  Michael Greger

  Eye, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

  Scot McKnight

  Track, Cards, Notes

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• We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Children, Believe, Humility

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• Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.

  Kyle E. McSlarrow

  Reality, Years, Lasts

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• The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Philosophy, Reality, Inquiry

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Christian, Views, Perfect

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• The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends.

  Tony Hoare

  Jobs, Formal, Method

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• The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Evil, High Places

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• We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.

  Tom Hatherley Pear

  Men, Skills, Temptation

  Tom Hatherley Pear (1924). “Skill in Work and Play”

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• If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There's an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for me, anyway- a profound dislocation. My old assumptions about how the world works are buried, yet my new ones aren't yet operational.There's been a death of sorts, but without a few days in hell, no resurrection is possible.

  Mary Karr

  Dark, Long, Profound

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• The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What is new is that Western science is slowly beginning to realize that some elements of that ancient lore might be correct.

  Dean Radin

  Philosophy, Ideas, Humanity

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Assumption is the mother of the screw-up.

  Angelo Donghia

  Mother, Boxing, Screw Ups

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