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“If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.”

Knows Believe May Opportunity Given Lines Know How Evidence Raises Assuming Bottom Don't Believe Budgets Boss Bottom Line Files Collecting No Money Negotiating

Author:Pat Heim

“The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.”

Government Opportunity Willing Evidence Assuming Definitions Extremes Contests Accusation

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.”

Ifs Way Looks Happened Creation Theory Evolution Evidence Assuming Enormous Quantity Compelling Enormous Quantities

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.”

“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”

Humans Growth Change Human Beings Baby Evidence Assuming Active Impulse Reasonable Newborn Actualization Newborn Baby

Author:Abraham Maslow

“I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.”

Would Be Offers Evidence Assuming Optimistic Foolishness Being Optimistic Refreshments

Book:Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.”

Knows Stills School Accepting Know How Evidence Assuming Expected Contrary Despite Primaries Overwhelming How To Love Elude Romantic Relationship Primary School Elude Us Experience Love

Book:All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

“A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.”

Source: The Character of Jesus