"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."
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"Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction."
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"It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity."
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"motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power."
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"The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism."
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"And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis."
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"Interrogate yours hidden assumptions"
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"A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book."
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"Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds."
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"Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding."
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"Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully."
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"You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do or don't do."
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"That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true."
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"Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man."
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"Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?"
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"Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards."
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"There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified."
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"When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly and clearly, and achieve impeccability with your word."
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"There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble."
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