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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.


Benjamin Banneker


#courage #despair #difficulties #easy #lose

Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.


Scott Brown


#american people #anyway #attitude #best #bill

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.


Hart Crane


#cultural #development #doubt #epic #foundation

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.


Hesiod


#evil #her #justice #kings #path

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.


Mortimer J. Adler


#faith #knowledge #opinion #presumption #faith

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

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

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


Marilyn vos Savant


#evolution #illogical #long #presumption #target

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]


R. Alan Woods


#presumption #r-alan-woods #refuting #r-alan-woods






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