#assume

People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#athlete #because #bit #dance #great

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#economic #economic theory #far #focused #future

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#assume #assumed #care #children #custom

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#assumptions #cannot #contrary #existence #fact

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#add #assume #especially #even #governed

We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons. ↗

— Mordechai Vanunu

#advanced technology #assume #build #computers #could

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. ↗

— Charles Williams

#emotional #famous #generally #god #immediate

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#assume #because #better #course #desire

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#being #false #feel #felt #guilt