Assuming Quotes

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The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
It's easy to assume people are conforming when we witness them all choosing the same option, but when we choose that very option ourselves, we… — Sheena Iyengar
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike… — Frances Wright
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we… — Donald Miller
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does… — Richard Stallman
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I… — Robert Scheer
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence. — Dave Heineman
"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they… — John Ortberg
Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death… — Anne Desclos
Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and… — Helio Gracie
Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you. — Ralph Marston
We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast;… — Donald M. Nelson
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat… — Paul Starr
In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public… — Stephen Holmes
Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus… — Douglas Merrill
Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will. — Dave Ramsey
One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything.… — Mike Krzyzewski
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman â€“ how dense! Confucius… — Zhuangzi
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community… — Amy Waldman

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