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I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.
Vincent Bugliosi
Lawyer
Society
Starts
Assumption
Criminal
Out
Find
Rarely
Case
Wrong
Opposite
Very
Going
Substantially
Incompetent
Start
The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or produce consciousness... but we have no idea how or why this happens. I'm afraid that in many cases, people in the tech world fail to understand that.
Yuval Noah Harari
People
World
Mind
Fire
Assumption
Signals
No Idea
Somehow
Cases
Neurons
Fail
Idea
Another
Understand
How
Brain
Afraid
Happens
Produce
Create
Produces
Many
Tech
Why
Consciousness
Millions
Widespread
People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.
Zoe Kazan
Health
People
Parents
Assumption
Incredibly
Way
Some
Had
Weirdo
Make
Upbringing
Hollywood
Us
Worked
Really
Hard
Who
Raise
The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.
George Monbiot
You
Mistake
Tough
Assumption
Must
Physical
Physically
Emotional
Emotionally
Countless
Stunted
Make
Because
Makes
Childhood
Which
Age-Old
Lives
Hardship
This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was angry and thought it was OK because his anger was righteous.
Richard Coles
Angry
Anger
Facebook
Thought
Assumption
Virtue
Saw
OK
Righteous
Moral
About
Someone
He
Talking
Because
His
Left
Frustrating
Capitalist
Our long-range predictions - especially those which anticipate extreme-weather events - rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to the past. Lose that, and we lose the tools that have allowed us to prepare for such eventualities.
Hannah Fry
Future
Events
Will
Lose
Past
Assumption
Tools
Our
Those
Similar
Rely
Allowed
Anticipate
Which
Predictions
Us
Prepare
By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.
Erving Goffman
Life
Believe
Assumption
Definition
Through
Unthinkingly
Course
Exercise
Reduce
Stigma
His
Effectively
Discrimination
Person
Quite
Often
Human
Which
Chances
The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.
Asha Rangappa
Government
Democracy
Assumption
Everyone
Our
Bad
Actor
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
Douglas Coupland
Time
Daily
Technology
People
Will
Assumption
Geek
Some
About
Feels
Massive
California
Another
Go
Dumped
Any
Us
Moment
Media
Routine
Imagine
There has been an unspoken assumption among establishment Republicans that all they have to do is wait out Hurricane Trump and then return to 'normal' conservatism.
Max Boot
Wait
Conservatism
Assumption
Out
Has-Been
Hurricane
Unspoken
Return
Been
Normal
Trump
Establishment
Republicans
Then
Among
Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.
Ryan Leaf
Time
People
Money
Care
Assumption
don't Care
Making
Time People
Lots
dont Care
So Much Money
Much
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