Assumption Quotes - Page 25

• Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, World, Edges

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• A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Long, Secret

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• I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

  Sylvia Porter

  People, Affair, Justified

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• The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

  Douglas Adams

  Challenges, Hardest, Knows

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• Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Credit, Pay, Economy

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• The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Space, Understanding

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• The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Males

  "Gloria Steinem Shares What She Learned 'On The Road'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 2, 2015.

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• There's been a certain amount of opportunism in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015, when there was almost a reflexive assumption that, "Oh, if only we didn't have strong encryption out there, these attacks could have been prevented." But, as more evidence has come out - and we don't know all the facts yet - we're seeing very little to support the idea that the Paris attackers were making any kind of use of encryption.

  Matt Blaze

  Strong, Ideas, Paris

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Each of us carries within us a worldview, a set of assumptions about how the world works - what some call a paradigm - that forms the very questions we allow ourselves to ask, and determines our view of future possibilities.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Views, World, Possibility

  Frances Moore Lappé (1991). “Rediscovering America's Values”

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• You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Morning, Mean

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• The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

  Norman Mailer

  Stopping, Waste, Moments

  norman mailer (1968). “teh armies of the night”

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• What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hunting, Government, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.445

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• The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Believe, Emotional

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• Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sex, Thinking, Generations

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• I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the final product. But in the same breath, I would say there's no shot in the teaser that I'm not really happy with.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Thinking, Hands, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.

  David Gene Gibbs

  Forever, Matter, Partners

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• It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

  Gene Sharp

  War, People, Gains

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• I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

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  Ram Dass

  Doorways, Different, Looks

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• What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

  Dallas Willard

  Thinking, Light, Facts

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• To no surprise, the theories and structures of naturalistic science affirm naturalistic assumptions.

  Albert Mohler

  Surprise, Structure, Theory

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• The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Forecasts

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• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

  Leonard Sweet

  Religious, Sweet, Jesus

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• To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.

  Richard Lindzen

  Climate, Cascade, Values

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• Our assumption is that God has not revealed all there is to know in the spiritual area any more than he has in these other areas. We, therefore, need to experiment in this area and, like scientists who work in other areas, develop and test theories in order to gain greater understanding

  Charles H. Kraft

  Spiritual, Order, Understanding

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• I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared to accept whatever the outcome of the intra-Syrian dialogue and the decision of the Syrian people is. But people are trying to decide and determine the outcome of the negotiation before even we agree to start the negotiations.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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