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• We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Perspective, Way

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1997.

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• The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  Believe, Heart, School

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• An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• If you don't show up at a party, people will assume you're fat.

  Julia Duffy

  Women, Party, Memorable

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• A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Differences, Quality

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• A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Intuition, Arrogant

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• All the new media are art forms which have the power of imposing, like poetry, their own assumptions.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Media

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• Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Would Be, Moral Beliefs, Facts

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

  Paul Broca

  Inspire, Physicians, Assuming

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• Don't make assumptions.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Lying, Failure

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jun 07, 2014

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• We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  People, Culture, Said

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• Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knows

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• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Literature, Firsts

  "A Contrarian Perspective on Altruism: The Dangers of First Contact". David Brin's remarks at the conference "Encoding Altruism", September 2002.

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• We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Attitude, Humility

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.21, Mango Media Inc.

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• Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

  Jennifer Young

  Pain, Suffering, Awakening

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• Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Change, Growth, Belief

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• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

  Ken Burns

  Halloween, Light, Challenges

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• Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

  Steve Blank

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  "No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models". steveblank.com. April 08, 2010.

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• A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Matter, Kind

  Michel Foucault (2013). “Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984”, p.154, Routledge

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• Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Reality, Self, Atheism

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• [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Knowledge, Independent, Science

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• I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Russia, Government, Support

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• In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Business, Three, Week

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• All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Silence, Absolute Certainty, Infallibility

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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