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The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?

There is a golden opportunity here for Christian men to assume a national leadership role by engaging in conversation with women.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things in boxes: "This is a memoir about a Muslim," or "This is a memoir about a woman or a normal personal." There's a certain story that assumes to be universal. Everyone else is ethnic fiction. Anyone can aspire to universality.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

There will instead be a number of fake opposition figures, one of whom is now probably going to be Kseniya Sobchak, which is an absurd idea. I assume she's been chosen because just even the idea of her standing for liberals so makes fun of the idea of liberals and of liberal democracy.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

There seems to me now to be the notion that you send something to a journal or an agent and months go by. It seems to me like that is a new piece of bad manners. Probably. Generally I assume that anything that happens now happened to Adam and Eve also.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.

To assume that a bigger pipeline is a better pipeline is a dangerous assumption.

Unfortunately there are too many examples of members of Congress and other elected officials using language, referring to your opponents in ways that you would have never done before, ascribing the worst motives to your opponents, and assuming that other Americans are the enemies. And that's just not the way it used to be. And I don't think it can be that way in the future.

To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled by progress.