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When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.

~Blase J. Cupich

Topics: Another Assumption Death Death Penalty Human Human Life Life Mistaken Penalty Profoundly State Taking

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For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

~Brian Sutton-Smith

Topics: Adult Assumption Been Children Decades Played Rubbish

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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

Topics: Assumption Bad Boy Disagree Girl Go Like Long Long Way Nice Think Way Whole Will I Think

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What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically the backbone to comedy. You set up a situation, let people make an assumption, and then you break the assumption.

~Bryan Cranston

Topics: About Assume Assumption Backbone Basically Break Comedy Great Make Obviously One Thing People Set Situation Then Thing Up You

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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

~Carlene Carter

Topics: Assumption Audience Big Continue Fear Felt Grew Had Happens Like Living Living Room Never Operate Room Separated Side Stage Up Us Were

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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?

~Carlton Cuse

Topics: Always Assumption Best Best Part Ending Episode Finale Idea Implicit Make Mind-Blowing Part People Question Say Show Somehow Sort Story Supposed Why

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When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

~Carol Anshaw

Topics: Assumption Characters Cultural Find Gay Irrelevant Many More Readers Repugnant Started Would

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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.

~Carrie Fisher

Topics: Along Assumption Couple Even Good Parents Sort Very Were

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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.

~Carter G. Woodson

Topics: Assumption Confined Deal Education Forces Fundamental Ghetto Leadership Life Make Matters Must Possible Religion Social Then Things Uplift

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The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Assumption Basic Everyday Fundamental Lead Liberty Lives Most Our Right Safety Seeks Smash Terrorist

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