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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

~Eddie Vedder

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If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

~Elizabeth Thornton

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When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

~Elizabeth Thornton

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Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

~Elizabeth Thornton

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A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

~Ellen Ullman

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When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

~Emily Levine

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There were a lot of assumptions that we were raised a certain way. Our dad was always really clear with us that he is rich and we are not: 'If you want to be rich, you should go do what I did, which is work really hard.'

~Erin Foster

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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

~Evelyn Glennie

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Move beyond the old assumptions, practices, and language that can be barriers to equal access.

~Frances Hesselbein

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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

~Gary Becker

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