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assumption

«Assumption is the mother of the screw-up»
Author: Angelo Donghia | Keywords: assumption, screw, screw up
«There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever.»
«I was under the assumption that it would be conducted as a normal investigation, not as some kind of a second-story job.»
«The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions»
«If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance»
«The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning»
«The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.»
«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.»
«In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is»
«One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.»

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