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Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.

Isaac Asimov

Shakes, Universe

Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Warren Buffett

Looks, Esoteric, Geek

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A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.

Michel Foucault

Thinking, Practice, Criticism

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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

Bono

Roots, Arrogance, Arrogant

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When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

Bret Easton Ellis

Mom, Sweet, Couple

Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.

Muriel Barbery

Wall, Believe, Inability

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August 31, 2006.

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A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your feelings and assumptions, testing what you believe. They end up turning into keepsakes and mementos –like amber in which a memory gets trapped.

Michael Chabon

Memories, Believe, Feelings

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Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and some of that always shows in the children, the way something of Germany or Australia always shows in a German or an Australian, no matter where they go. Outsiders like it or they don't, they feel at home there or they don't. It's like the taste of cilantro.

Roland Merullo

Country, Children, Home

Roland Merullo (2009). “A Little Love Story: A Novel”, p.96, Vintage

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I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Kids, Artist, Play

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Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.
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Sherry Argov

Men, Principles, Dresses

Sherry Argov, “Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart”

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In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?

Masashi Kishimoto

Reality, Order, Understanding

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...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

Tom Stoppard

Taken, Differences, Long

Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about "eating animals", they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It's a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that most people already know that to be the case.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Book, Writing, Animal

"Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

Paul Johnson

Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance

Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

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Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people make the assumption that you do not FEEL what they feel. And then they make the assumption— That you must not feel anything at all.

Nora Raleigh Baskin

People, Looks, Want

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...This is the first time I have met someone who seeks out people and who sees beyond. [...] We never look beyond our assumptions and, what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves. We don't recognize each other because other people have become our permanent mirrors. If we actually realized this, if we were to become aware of the fact that we are alone in the wilderness, we would go crazy. [...] As for me, I implore fate to give me the chance to see beyond myself and truly meet someone.

Muriel Barbery

Crazy, Fate, Mirrors

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, books.google.ru. September, 2 2013.

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I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

Hugh Prather

Betrayal, Fear, Mistake

Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

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From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Karma, Views

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The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.

C. S. Lewis

Boys, Thinking, Years

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The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

Richard Paul Evans

Dream, Procrastination, Weather

FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 04, 2012

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I’m going to make the wildly unfounded assumption that Satara’s dead by your hand and not Tory’s. Now, stay with me on this, Cajun. My father slit my throat and murdered my wife because he thought I’d betrayed him by getting married. Before that, he loved me more than his life and I was his last surviving child. His second in command. Now what do you think he’s going to do to you once he sees her body? I can assure you, it won’t be a fun-filled trip to Chuck E. Cheese. (Urian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Children, Fun, Father

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The worst thing about e-mail is that you can’t interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It’s frustrating and it’s time-consuming. God bless phone calls.

George Carlin

Mistake, Phones, Mail

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The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured.

Jennifer Estep

Men, Two, Made

Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

C. S. Lewis

Memories, Five Senses, Minorities

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

George Orwell

Darkness, Sound, Moments

"1984". Book by George Orwell, June 8, 1949.

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