Assumption Quotes - Page 39

I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way.

Margaret Cho

Feelings, Forgiving, Catharsis

Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Excellent, Reasoning

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Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre.

Milton Friedman

Bizarre, Theory

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Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Patient, Tomorrow, Reasonable

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A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to believe that a god either created or presides over this world, there is equally no good reason to believe that a god created or presides over the next world, on the unlikely supposition that such a thing exists.

A.J. Ayer

Believe, Afterlife, World

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As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies.

Albert Einstein

Lying, Data, Numbers

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We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

W. Brian Arthur

Real, Doe, Way

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One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

Lester Thurow

Long, Economics, Psychologist

Lester C. Thurow (1984). “Dangerous currents: the state of economics”, Vintage

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Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

Richard Serra

Determination, Art, People

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Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

Cornel West

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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.

Alan Alda

Light, Hands, People

"Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.

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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

America, Voting, Democracy

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The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.

John Rosemond

Children, Self Esteem, Epidemics

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The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity and the resulting ratios in the three age groups in which a large number of patients were interviewed (ages 45 to 74) are averaged, the relative risks become 6, 19, 26, 49, and 65 when the number of cigarettes smoked a day are 3, 10, 20, 35, and, say, 60-that is, the mid-points of each smoking group. In other words, on the admittedly speculative assumptions we have made, the risk seems to vary in approximately simple proportion with the amount smoked.

Richard Doll

Cancer, Taken, Science

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Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

Benjamin Tucker

Government, Liberty, Purpose

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.

Wendell Willkie

Men, Rights, America

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We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

Muhammad Yunus

Business, Believe, People

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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Marilyn Ferguson

Funny, Motivational, Mean

Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

Impossible, Aging, Life Is

The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 10 (1905)

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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Alfred North Whitehead

Parent, Criticism, Generations

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Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mistake, Lying, Animal

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

William Hazlitt

Genius, Merit, Talent

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge, Fundamentals, Life Is

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1526, e-artnow

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The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

Mortimer Adler

Spiritual, Religious, Angel

Mortimer J. Adler (1982). “Angels and Us”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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Either because I was an athlete or because I was black - probably both - there seemed to be a clear assumption that I wouldn't be up to the work.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball, Athlete, Black

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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