Assumption Quotes

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Since there is an assumption that a lot of models â€˜starve themselvesâ€™ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people… — Robyn Lawley
Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list… — David Berlinski
Progress is a set of assumptions. — Edward Albee
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the… — Raymond E. Feist
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do… — Lee Kuan Yew
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence,… — Lee Kuan Yew
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that… — Millar Burrows
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you… — Maria Popova
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode… — Arthur Schuster
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire… — Eduard Hanslick
Engineers are not superhuman. They make mistakes in their assumptions, in their calculations, in their conclusions. That they make mistakes is forgivable; that they catch… — Henry Petroski
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace:… — David Bentley Hart
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any… — James Harvey Robinson
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had… — Derek Sivers
PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS… — Miguel
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into… — Duane Michals
When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi… — John Powell
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.… — Hugh Prather

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