The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's not an easy option. The essence of travel is letting go of habit and prejudice and relishing the unfamiliar. Food you've… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The assumption was that a calorie is a calorie. Nothing could be further from the truth. The food industry wants you to… — Robert Lustig Copy Share Image
Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe… — Henry Harrower Copy Share Image
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.… — David M. Kreps Copy Share Image
If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
That doesn't mean that the top fifteen institutions in the ranking somehow don't belong there at all. But what is the difference… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
“Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood.… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis:… — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
I think there's - the assumption seems to predominate on the other side that the reason there's been problems in the world… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However,… — Masashi Kishimoto Copy Share Image
“When giving instructions, or evaluating a proposal, it helps to be a specific and not to assume the other side understands what… — stained hanes Copy Share Image
