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"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."	Douglas Noel Adams
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home."	Dave Barry
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed."	William John Bennett
"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."	Mary Bertone
"Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror."	Herb Brody
"All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent."	David Ross Brower
"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety."	Charles Robert Darwin
"I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs."	Albert Einstein
"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."	Richard Buckminster Fuller
"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."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"When you go to a party at somebody's house, don't automatically assume that the drinks are free. Ask, and ask often."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes?"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes ... different points of view."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form."	Kabbalah
"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision."	Henry Alfred Kissinger

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Kabbalah	Mary Bertone	Richard Buckminster Fuller
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