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We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Assumption Automatically Become Conservative Grow More Need Older People Revise Tired

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What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn't the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant - their automatic assumption that I didn't enjoy it.

~Charlie Brooker

Topics: About Assistant Assumption Automatic Customer Disliked Enjoy Hours Most Occasional People Shop Them Way Working

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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Assumption Become Concrete Direction Experience Further General Give Inherent Only Reached Research Science Systematic Then Truths Ultimate Until

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I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

~Chet Faker

Topics: Always Assumption Being Everyone Fame Four Hate Hit Music Musician Personally Point Rather Said Sharing Signed Some Songs Than Up Wants

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In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Assumption Child Choice Choices Choose Every False Make Many Notion Places Pretense Same School Set Very Ways

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There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

~Corbin Bernsen

Topics: Absolutely Any Assumption Conservative Faith Just Those True Vote Way You

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Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: About Anything Assumption Beauty Character Charming Condescending Female Mistake Pageant Seem Slightly Sometimes Time Upbeat

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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Assumption Begin Books Certain Concerned Continue Day Early Get Going Hard Night Only Rule Try Want Way Where Work Written You Your

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When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now when a kid is odd in a Greensburg, gay or straight, the default assumption is gay.

~Dan Savage

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I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.

~Daniel Greenberg

Topics: About Assumption Better Get Good Kids Know Learn Need People Problem Real Real Problem Tell Working World You Ahead

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