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The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior. – Doug Bandow	added by Normando 11 months ago
The assumption there is a single player in the nation that will work in every market is proving to not be true, even in Chicago, the solutions differ by neighborhood. – Liz Abunaw	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are afraid that, more and more, the actions and the language of the government is premised on the assumption that just because we are Chinese or have cultural ties to China that we could be disloyal, or be spies, or be under the influence of a foreign government, we want to deliver the message: Not only are we not a national security liability — we are a national security asset. – Zhengyu Huang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
For incels, the reality presented to them by the red pill is that love and sexual satisfaction are commodities that women deny them, and that women, not men, control the sexual aspects of society, under this assumption, sex and relationships become almost like a game with specific challenges to overcome. – Brette Steele	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Instead, this assumption being that it is un-American to have a free ride, so we will use the lending that turned a country of renters into a nation of homeowners. But just like we now know how the mortgage program exacerbated racial and gender inequality, the same thing happened with the student loan programs too. – Elizabeth Shermer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
His research is a very good way to push back on the silly assumption that mass doesn’t matter in war at sea. – Alessio Patalano	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by Normando 1 year ago
People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it’s such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don’t lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I’d pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being. – Olivia Nuzzi	added by anonymous 1 year ago
There is a limit to how many migrants any society can take without severe disruption and assistance, and our system is based much more on an assumption that things would be more normal. – Bill Clinton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. – John Fiske	added by Normando 1 year ago
Maybe he is, like a whole snake. But I didn’t see him that way, i made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it, and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing. – Rich Polk/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ohio's reforms were designed for the assumption that Read MoreOn the flip side was Read MoreOn the flip side, and Read MoreOn the flip side just isn't anymore, and now Republicans are like,' Well, we'll pass a map. It's only good for four years, and then we'll redraw the map in four years. We don't have a problem with that.'. – Michael Li	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is an assumption that China will do more, it may be that our politicians are thinking that it's easier to deal with China in terms of implementing things on the ground quickly, in comparison to other donors that have been in the Solomons for a long time yet have been very slow. – Celsus Talifilu	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The reason I don't think he's talking, and it's kind of an assumption on my part … this suspect is familiar with the criminal justice system, intimately. – Casey Valley	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
People were under the assumption that we’re Russian, and even if we were, let’s just say we were, it really shouldn’t matter. And if you ask me, it’s not like Russian people want this war. – Alan Aguichev	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's unfortunate and shocking to learn for the first time this week that Brian felt differently about our interview with him, for Brian to make an assumption about my appearance and state of mind early that morning was subjective, hurtful and just plain wrong. If I appeared' disheveled,' as he claimed, it was because we had flown in during the middle of the night -- immediately following another interview in Denver -- and were going on a few hours of sleep to meet the only window provided to us. – John Elway	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Many of us thought that this was done, the fact of the matter is you make an assumption that in 1965 this should have been done for once and for all. – King III	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I used to take it all very personally — the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption, it’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going on with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty. – Jennifer Aniston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
UNL’s plan is also based on the flawed assumption that differences in outcomes among racial groups are the result of systemic racism and how people are treated based on skin color, the data, however, does n’t support this conclusion.The University’s plan makes the claim that racism is' often structural and embedded into systems,' however, it does not spell out specific examples of what this looks like at UNL besides vaguely stating there are. – Pete Ricketts	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It automatically operates on the assumption that the most important aspect of our lives is race. – Bob Woodson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
North Port PD was under the assumption that Brian was home, and so was the FBI when they got a tip on Friday that Brian was in Tampa, and they wanted to meet with us on Friday, i was shocked and said, 'That's good. You found him in Tampa,' and they said, 'What do you mean? I thought he's at the house.' I said, 'No, I told you the other day he never came home.'. – Michael Ruiz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s easy to point to Gruden and go, ‘Oh, isn’t he terrible?’ and ‘Look at the terrible things he did.’ But that doesn’t look at that larger culture, where people were participating with him. People were allowing these emails to exist. It really is about the whole culture and that sense, that I’m sure people have cultivated, to feel like, ‘I can say these things and they will be, at best, appreciated and reciprocated or, at worst, people may not appreciate them but nothing’s going to happen.’ And that is about privilege and entitlement, there is the assumption that ‘I can say these things to another white man who is going to think they’re OK.'. – Diane Goodman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My assumption is if you were going on to do something else, that you were at least going to ask me if I wanted to have the opportunity to audition for the role, judge Judy. – Petri Hawkins Byrd	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There was also an assumption that … we could take our sweet time, there was also some ambivalence in the Biden administration. – Vice President Daniel Runde	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and inevitable. Higher taxes left individuals with less money to give; government’s assumption of responsibility for providing welfare shriveled the perceived duty of individuals to respond to their neighbors’ needs; and the availability of public programs gave recipients an alternative to private assistance, one which did not challenge recipients to reform their destructive behavior.

– Doug Bandow

added by Normando
11 months ago

The assumption there is a single player in the nation that will work in every market is proving to not be true, even in Chicago, the solutions differ by neighborhood.

– Liz Abunaw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are afraid that, more and more, the actions and the language of the government is premised on the assumption that just because we are Chinese or have cultural ties to China that we could be disloyal, or be spies, or be under the influence of a foreign government, we want to deliver the message: Not only are we not a national security liability — we are a national security asset.

– Zhengyu Huang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For incels, the reality presented to them by the red pill is that love and sexual satisfaction are commodities that women deny them, and that women, not men, control the sexual aspects of society, under this assumption, sex and relationships become almost like a game with specific challenges to overcome.

– Brette Steele

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Instead, this assumption being that it is un-American to have a free ride, so we will use the lending that turned a country of renters into a nation of homeowners. But just like we now know how the mortgage program exacerbated racial and gender inequality, the same thing happened with the student loan programs too.

– Elizabeth Shermer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His research is a very good way to push back on the silly assumption that mass doesn’t matter in war at sea.

– Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by Normando
1 year ago

People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it’s such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don’t lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I’d pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.

– Olivia Nuzzi

added by anonymous
1 year ago

There is a limit to how many migrants any society can take without severe disruption and assistance, and our system is based much more on an assumption that things would be more normal.

– Bill Clinton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.

– John Fiske

added by Normando
1 year ago

Maybe he is, like a whole snake. But I didn’t see him that way, i made an assumption that he was gonna be chill about it, and he went and shared information that I didn’t feel comfortable with him sharing.

– Rich Polk/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ohio's reforms were designed for the assumption that Read MoreOn the flip side was Read MoreOn the flip side, and Read MoreOn the flip side just isn't anymore, and now Republicans are like,' Well, we'll pass a map. It's only good for four years, and then we'll redraw the map in four years. We don't have a problem with that.'.

– Michael Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is an assumption that China will do more, it may be that our politicians are thinking that it's easier to deal with China in terms of implementing things on the ground quickly, in comparison to other donors that have been in the Solomons for a long time yet have been very slow.

– Celsus Talifilu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason I don't think he's talking, and it's kind of an assumption on my part … this suspect is familiar with the criminal justice system, intimately.

– Casey Valley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People were under the assumption that we’re Russian, and even if we were, let’s just say we were, it really shouldn’t matter. And if you ask me, it’s not like Russian people want this war.

– Alan Aguichev

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's unfortunate and shocking to learn for the first time this week that Brian felt differently about our interview with him, for Brian to make an assumption about my appearance and state of mind early that morning was subjective, hurtful and just plain wrong. If I appeared' disheveled,' as he claimed, it was because we had flown in during the middle of the night -- immediately following another interview in Denver -- and were going on a few hours of sleep to meet the only window provided to us.

– John Elway

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Many of us thought that this was done, the fact of the matter is you make an assumption that in 1965 this should have been done for once and for all.

– King III

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I used to take it all very personally — the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption, it’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going on with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty.

– Jennifer Aniston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

UNL’s plan is also based on the flawed assumption that differences in outcomes among racial groups are the result of systemic racism and how people are treated based on skin color, the data, however, does n’t support this conclusion.The University’s plan makes the claim that racism is' often structural and embedded into systems,' however, it does not spell out specific examples of what this looks like at UNL besides vaguely stating there are.

– Pete Ricketts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It automatically operates on the assumption that the most important aspect of our lives is race.

– Bob Woodson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

North Port PD was under the assumption that Brian was home, and so was the FBI when they got a tip on Friday that Brian was in Tampa, and they wanted to meet with us on Friday, i was shocked and said, 'That's good. You found him in Tampa,' and they said, 'What do you mean? I thought he's at the house.' I said, 'No, I told you the other day he never came home.'.

– Michael Ruiz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s easy to point to Gruden and go, ‘Oh, isn’t he terrible?’ and ‘Look at the terrible things he did.’ But that doesn’t look at that larger culture, where people were participating with him. People were allowing these emails to exist. It really is about the whole culture and that sense, that I’m sure people have cultivated, to feel like, ‘I can say these things and they will be, at best, appreciated and reciprocated or, at worst, people may not appreciate them but nothing’s going to happen.’ And that is about privilege and entitlement, there is the assumption that ‘I can say these things to another white man who is going to think they’re OK.'.

– Diane Goodman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My assumption is if you were going on to do something else, that you were at least going to ask me if I wanted to have the opportunity to audition for the role, judge Judy.

– Petri Hawkins Byrd

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There was also an assumption that … we could take our sweet time, there was also some ambivalence in the Biden administration.

– Vice President Daniel Runde

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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