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There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified. Noam Chomsky

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There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. Oliver North

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I think it becomes incumbent upon a candidate to essentially disavow some of the things that are in that party platform. Otherwise, I think the assumption is that you are a true believer. Pete Gallego

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If you're good enough, you're old enough: that's what everyone says. When a talented young player emerges, his age doesn't matter; people want to see him in the team. So why, when you become older, is the assumption that you are no longer good enough? Peter Crouch

Good You Age People Matter Old Become Young Older Enough Assumption Everyone Says See Emerges Longer Talented Him His Want Old Enough Team Why Player

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. Phillip E. Johnson

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman. Randall Kennedy

Woman Sometimes White Assumption Married Would Would-Be Blacks Primarily Almost Institutions Wives Much Who Many Elite

In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored. Raymond E. Feist

Myself Down Assumption Entertained Introducing Bored More Cast New Readers End Timeline Get Going In The End Moving Reasons Even Keeping

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking. Richard Rogers

I suppose when any movie dealing with politics is released, there is a knee-jerk assumption that it is propelled by a liberal agenda. That may be true most of the time, but not with 'Nothing but the Truth.' Rod Lurie

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The bad-boy label is just an assumption. Russell Brand

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I need to crack the Mumbai traffic code - if I leave early, under the assumption that there will be traffic, I get completely clear roads and reach an hour before my meeting, and then because I can't find parking I end up having to walk anyway. Saqib Saleem

Walk Will Before Assumption Meeting Find Having Parking Clear Roads Hour Reach Because Leave Traffic End Up Crack Get Anyway Then Code Mumbai Early Need

I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep. Sayed Kashua

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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance. Sebastian Thrun

Problem Moon Every Assumption Way More Area Towards Like Importance Go Question To The Moon Shots Should Flew Flights Societal

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. Sheryl Sandberg

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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Siri Hustvedt

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I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment. Srikumar Rao

You Assumption Corporate Environment Survive Person To Survive Challenging Need

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Stanley Hauerwas

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There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, quite a lot of older people go. For them, it's like pre-alternative comedy, when there was Dave Allen or Jackie Mason or someone. Also, weirdly, because I don't really swear, they're not scared off. Stewart Lee

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I'm gay. Megan's my girlfriend... These aren't secrets to people who know me. I don't feel like I've not lived my life. I think people have this assumption that if you're not talking about it, you must be hiding it, like it's this secret. That was never the case for me. Sue Bird

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I. Tom Wolfe

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise. Trevor Paglen

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