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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.


Herodotus


#does #god #himself #presumption #suffer

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.


Algernon Sidney


#general #govern #governed #man #people

Were I to flatter myself with the possibility of success in such combat, it would indeed be presumption.


Anne Seward


#flatter #i #indeed #myself #possibility

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.


Esther Dyson


#guy #i #i think #kind #know

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.


Dee Dee Myers


#good #good intentions #government #innocence #instead

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself.


James L. Buckley


#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.


James Thurber


#any #breeding #burgundy #domestic #i

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.


Ernest Hemingway


#assume #events #great #his #invention

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.


Barney Frank


#innocence #people #presumption

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.


Marilyn vos Savant


#evolution #illogical #long #presumption #target






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