#presume

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

#argument #articles #beans #beneficial #certain

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#bill of rights #create #designed #did #framers

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#being #faultless #faults #good #good qualities

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#comedy #i #much #practical #presume

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. ↗

— John Irving

#finished product #love #more #much #must

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music. ↗

— Robert Morris

#guarantee #i #idea #just #music

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#cultures #during #here #how #least

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#am #bothers #everyone #everything #extremely

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. ↗

— Scott Turow

#experience