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«Out of disbelief [in God] we have impudently assumed that all of life is now subject to our own will. And the disasters that have come from willing what cannot be willed have not at all brought us to some modesty about our presumptions.»
«Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.»
Author: Grover Cleveland
| About:
Men and Women
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assigned, assumed, positions, relative, working out
«The people who worked at the clubs just assumed I was a tagalong girlfriend or groupie. I'd get up on stage and the audience was just like, 'Show me your tits!' I had nothing to show anyway.»
Author: Gwen Stefani
(Singer)
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assumed, clubs, girlfriend, groupie, On Stage, tagalong, tit
«I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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agnostic, agnostics, assumed, As of, atheist, creature, decided, emotionally, humanist, humanists, intellectually, long time, One Good Reason, out-and-out, Say It, somehow, strongly, suspect, took, unrespectable
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
New York
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achieved, and so, and so on, assumed, believed, conversely, dolphin, dolphins, Good Time, Having, intelligent, muck, mucked, muck about, New Man, New York, precisely, so much, The New York Times, The Water, The wheel, wars, water, wheel, wheeled, York
«That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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assumed, assumptions, conclusions
«My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformaties, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old f»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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assumed, coat, coats, comfortably, complacent, molded, Movements, wrinkles
«That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.»
«Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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assumed, in due course, mask, The Mask