#presume

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

— Scott Turow

#experience

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills. ↗

— William Drummond

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one. ↗

— Paris Hilton

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And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.' ↗

— Richard Dawson

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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

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

— Bob Newhart

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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