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• Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

  Alison Gopnik

  Teaching, Adults, Fundamentals

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• As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Confusing, Everyday

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• People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

  Daphne Guinness

  Divorce, People, Needs

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• We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

  Anne Hathaway

  Attitude, War, People

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• Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

  Vaclav Havel

  Drama, Order, Theatre

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Settling, Economy

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich von Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, Ideas, House

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• Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Jealousy, Mistake

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

  Jonah Hill

  Rose, Life Is, Turns

  "Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of 'Superbad'". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 15, 2007.

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• You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.

  Ellen Hollman

  Men, Hands, Might

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• When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Truth, Men

  Remark to Baron von Humboldt, 1807, in Rayner 'Life of Jefferson' (1834) p. 356

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• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Dance, Athlete

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• If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, People, First Impression

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

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• The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Outcomes, Planning, Should

  "The Truth About How We Think". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. March 20, 2012.

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• We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Problem, Economic

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• I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

  Michio Kaku

  Christmas, Powerful, Law

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• An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

  Victor Kiam

  Success, Stress, Entrepreneur

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• Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

  Victor Kiam

  Responsibility, Ideas, Support

  Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet

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• What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

  Stephen King

  War, Responsibility, America

  "Why Stephen King wants to pay more tax" by Patrick Kingsley, www.theguardian.com. May 01, 2012.

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Talking, People, Information

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• Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  People, Asean, Improving

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• I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.

  Queen Latifah

  Gay, Thinking, People

  "Her Highness Still Rules". Interview with Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. October 3, 2008.

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• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  Damian Lewis

  Men, People, Praying

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• Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Sometimes, Notes

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