Assumption Quotes
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
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One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'
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There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
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Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
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Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
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Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.
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Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.
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Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
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The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
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Never assume the obvious is true.
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There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.
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We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
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I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting that because I think that comes with assumptions. I think, when I was younger, I used to make judgments about people who were super spiritual. And I think it's a very personal subject.
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There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
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In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
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The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
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Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
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Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test your assumptions.
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I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
