You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The difference there is that the [Donald] Trump number on change is so much larger than the lead that the other two… — Amy Walter Copy Share Image
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on… — Gray Davis Copy Share Image
How would your life be different if you stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong...… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Perhaps preachers today need to think about the assumptions that are common in their congregation - the plausibilities and comforting assurances -… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted… — Akira Mori Copy Share Image
Americans once believed that their prosperity and way of life depended on having assured access to Persian Gulf oil. Today, that is… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Economics has increasingly become the science of human behavior in general, and it's all the more unlikely to think that it can… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting… — Erin Davie Copy Share Image
The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of the Internet, I have always operated under the assumption that if the government or corporations have technological capability… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Bitcoin seems to be a very promising idea. I like the idea of basing security on the assumption that the CPU power… — Hal Finney Copy Share Image
The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet… — John F. Kerry 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
Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image