#presuppose

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. ↗

— Elias Canetti

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I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object. ↗

— William Ames

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