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Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.
Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.
I like the assumption that everyone is trying his best, and we should all just be kind to each other.
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.
We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.
What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.
I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.
I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep.
Too often we are Christians by assumption, manipulation or instruction, rather than Christians by regeneration.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
There's often an assumption you're more privileged if you belong to a family with people who have made a success.
There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.
There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.
There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.
I always think of myself as an audience first. If I like something, my assumption is that others, too, will like it.
The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists.
We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.
Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?
All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.
I am not taking for granted a call-up to the England squad or making any assumption about my future international career.
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.
Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure
There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.
Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?
Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy.
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.