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And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

~Esther Dyson

Topics: American Assume Assumption Certainly Coat Crook Fur Honestly Just Killer Make Me Money Nice Russians She Shows Up Woman You

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Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Assume Assumption Behaviour Economics Good How Long Long Term May Old Opposed People Personally Practice Rational See Term Think Unwise Useful Would

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There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: Absurd Always Association Assumption Because Believe Build Citizens Civic Civil Confuse Done Everything Good Good Thing Necessarily Network People Public Sphere Tend Thing Think You I Think A Good Thing

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The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: After Appear Assumption Average Average Person Dinner Even Eye Facebook Having In Print Just Life People Person Personalities Print Private Private Life Public Public Eye Right Should True Will

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The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

~Frank Knight

Topics: About Anything Assumption Behave Future Identity Past Possibility Preserves Respect Rests Same Same Thing Saying Situations Thing Will

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If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

~Fred Ward

Topics: About Answer Assumption Fact Feels Her How Immediate In Fact Me Problem Share She Show Solve Some Something Tells Wants Woman

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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

~Gary Becker

Topics: Assumption Criminals Different Else Everyone Everyone Else Had Motivations Radically Sympathetic

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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

~George C. Williams

Topics: Adaptation Assumption Book Criticism Directed General Individuals Main Rather Simply Species Than Think I Think

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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

Topics: Always Assumption Been Brotherhood Grounds Love Man Narcissistic Ought Over Principle Realize Same Whole World

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