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«Preferential affirmative action patronizes American blacks, women, and others by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own. Preferential affirmative action does not advance civil rights in this country.»
Author: Alan Keyes
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«The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming
«The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.»
Author: Harold L. Ickes
(Activist, Journalist, Lawyer, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
halitosis, presuming, senator
«Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
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«In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«He that knows least commonly presumes most»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
commonly, presumed, presumes, presume to, presuming