Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
As a person with cerebral palsy who walks with crutches, people have the assumption that I've had to overcome a lot of… — Greg Walloch Copy Share Image
The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong. — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
The default assumption is that - financial crises aside - growth will continue indefinitely. Not just for the poorest countries, where a… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the… — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
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