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There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

~Daniel Kahneman

Topics: Analysis Assumption Available Behave Developed Did Economics Exploit Good Good Reason How Many Markets Opportunities People Plausible Reason Situations Them Very Way Why Will

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One of the most stubborn barriers to patient empowerment is the cultural assumption that since the way professionals learned was hard, you must need to be really smart, and you need to be taught in a carefully thought out, methodical sequence.

~Dave Debronkart

Topics: Assumption Barriers Carefully Cultural Empowerment Hard Learned Methodical Most Must Need Out Patient Professionals Really Sequence Since Smart Stubborn Taught Thought Way You

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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?

~David Byrne

Topics: Allow Assumption Before Chaos Create How How Much Life Mess Much Over Personal Personal Life Takes You Your

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Government doesn't do much for the new Americans. The assumption is that they'll take care of themselves if they work hard enough.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: American Assumption Care Enough Government Hard Much New Take Take Care Themselves Work Work Hard

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The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

~David Malpass

Topics: Assumption Bankruptcy Bear Biggest Biggest Mistake Brothers Could Epidemic Financial Had Job Led Losses Mistake Mistakes Panic Resolve Series Single Washington Without Would

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An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Aggressive Aggressiveness Almost Almost All Assertiveness Assumption Between Certainly Comments Gender Interruptions Line Perceived Shifts Underlying

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In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.

~Don Miguel Ruiz

Topics: Absolute Absolute Truth Assumption Because Becomes Beliefs Believe Complicated Development Even Grow Lives Make More Our Our Lives Structure Throughout Truth Very

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The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.

~Donald E. Graham

Topics: Academics Assumption Bring Career Closer Contact Did His Institute Intended John John F. Kennedy Kennedy Originally Other Political Politicians Politics Scholars Use

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Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: Ability Any Anywhere Assumption Attained Comfort Criticisms Does Feminine Flattery Held Her Include Man Maternal Men More Position Positions Power Powerful Powerful Man Provide Same Should Standards Subjected Successful Through Washington Woman Women

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My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Any Assumption Began Believed Could Everyone Genuinely Get Go Going Had Make Money Much Never People Reach Service Something Therefore Upset Well Were Writing You

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