"There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so."
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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
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"Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third."
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"Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you."
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"If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced."
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"The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making."
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"Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility."
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"Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong."
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"Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator."
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"The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence."
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"Assumptions are what we don't know we are making"
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"The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption."
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"If you want to enter a state of grace, question the assumption you’re defending right now."
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"...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so."
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"If you never assume importance, you never lose it."
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"Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions."
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"We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions."
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"To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption."
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"Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making."
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"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
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