#assumption

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

— Gary Becker

#criminals #different #else #everyone #had

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. ↗

— Harry Browne

#assumption #challenged #competent #counsel #courtroom

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#attempt #buy #close #could #day

You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#dealing #health #issues #make #you

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption. ↗

— Phil Collins

#assumption #been #bothered #each #i

There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village. ↗

— Roma Downey

#assumption #child #children #cultures #fact

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

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#assumptions #relationships

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#confined #deal #education #forces #fundamental

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #assumption #battle #beat #constantly