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We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.
Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.
If there's a danger at Facebook, it's the assumption that Facebook has us all locked in and we aren't going to go elsewhere.
Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.
Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.
Even my parents sort of went along with the assumption that they were a good couple, but they probably weren't a very good couple.
Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.
The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
To say that climate change will be catastrophic hides a cascade of value-laden assumptions that do not emerge from empirical science.
That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.
Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
My lazy, unfair assumption is that everything's easier when you're young and stunning. And maybe it is! But I'd like to see for myself.
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.
I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.
The American public recognizes truth versus assumption, presumptions, and the personal opinions of witnesses without firsthand knowledge.
We need to challenge this assumption that any child who's alone, who isn't being directly supervised and observed, is a child in in peril.
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
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.
It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.
We have a dangerous tendency to misunderstand, minimize, and even manipulate the gospel in order to accommodate our assumptions and our desires.
If you put a pink cover on something, critics make a certain set of assumptions and may not even read the book. But my readers are happy with it.