Quotes with assumption

  • The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
  • 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.
  • I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

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  • Warren Buffett I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Adam Arkin I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Betty Friedan If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is female chauvinism. Friedan, Betty. 1998.
    It Changed My Life: Writings on the Womens Movement
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Orville Wright If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
    Poetic Justice Ch. 2 (1970)
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Stephen Bayley 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.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Adam Arkin The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Brooke Burke There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson 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.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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