Any community's arm of force military, police, security needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
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Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.
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The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
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Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodes.. Assumptions about the nature of our reality, the?pattern? In which we dwell, and lays open new choices.
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I am a possibilist. I believe that humanity is master of its own fate.. Before we can change direction, we have to question many of the assumptions underlying our current philosophy. Assumptions like bigger is better; you can't stop progress; no speed is too fast; globalization is good. Then we have to replace them with some different assumptions: small is beautiful; roots and traditions are worth preserving; variety is the spice of life; the only work worth doing is meaningful work; biodiversity is the necessary pre-condition for human survival.
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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
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You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
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The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin
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Our assessment found no changes warranted to our major modeling assumptions.
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Since we won't be building any more planes, we need to know how long the strike will last before we can make any assumptions on deliveries.
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This is good stuff. It's one of those stories that's easy to make assumptions about. There could be a lot of reasons why the place burned down.
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We continue to believe that Street estimates incorporate sales growth assumptions that are likely to prove conservative.
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This remarkable achievement overturns industry assumptions and has the potential to fundamentally change the way high performance semiconductors are designed, manufactured and deployed.
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We came in with assumptions, and we blew some of those assumptions away. Many of our kids could read on the surface level. They were unable to navigate the question and answer relationships.
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Customers increasingly make assumptions on a company and its brands based on the online experience.
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It brings the school district some level of comfort knowing that our assumptions were correct in filing this suit.
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I remain cautious. I wouldn't be surprised if demand assumptions get revised down in 2006 and with supply coming on, that's going to have a negative impact on commodities prices.
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I don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about th
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The VA's health-care funding process has been built on false claims of efficiency, erroneous assumptions, and a smoke-and-mirrors budgetary process.
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The history of this division, partly because of the devices element, is that reviews and approvals tend to be very slow, so we made realistic to conservative assumptions on what the review period should be.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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So in all cases our assumptions are based on our engineering judgment with input from the people that we consulted.
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We have an awful lot of assumptions that these numbers hold a certain amount of magic, when they really are a snapshot,.. Why are we elevating these narrow scores and thinking they show so much?
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