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• Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  Christina Romer

  Government, Competition, Wages

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• I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Country, Attitude, Australia

  "Geoffrey Rush To The Rescue". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2010.

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• When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

  Richard Russo

  Writing, Fiction, Ends

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• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Opposites, People, Panic

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• A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fear, Business, Responsibility

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Couple, People

  "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Feel Guilty Working Because Of My Kids’" by Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Roles, Leadership Roles, Ifs

  "Sheryl Sandberg Tells Oprah About Her ‘Date’ With Mark Zuckerberg, Her Marriage And Feeling Like A Fraud". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Back To Work, Going Back To Work, Dryers

  "The Surprising Story Of The ’Anti-Fascist Warrior Hairdresser’ Vidal Sassoon" by Tiffany Gabbay, www.businessinsider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.

  George Saunders

  Art, Intelligent, Games

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• Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Remembering Maurice Sendak and the Wild Things" by Anita Voelker, www.foxnews.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

  Joseph Sobran

  Father, Government, Empathy

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• People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, School, People

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

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• We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Looking Good, Reverse

  "Linjustice". www.newyorker.com. March 5, 2012.

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• It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Fashion, Editors, Looks

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Earthquakes, Warning

  "Martyrs in Paradise". Book by Terry Reese Downing, 2009.

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• Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Hands, People, Giving

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• We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

  Gabrielle Union

  Letting Go, Realizing, Charming

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• Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

  Allen West

  Philosophy, Worry, Care

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• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  Olivia Wilde

  Bad Ass, Play, People

  "Olivia Wilde On Turning 30: ‘I’m Welcoming This Development With Open Arms", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2013.

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• A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.

  Olivia Wilde

  Block, Emotional, Feet

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• I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Responsibility, People

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• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

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• I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Making Money, Economic, Source

  "Social Business and the Pursuit of Happiness" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2013.

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• A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.

  Gary Zukav

  Responsibility, Choices, Responsible

  "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Respect for you and your crazy beliefs" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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