If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people who whine about Fox News are hypocrites - they say they're totally tolerant, but when they run into someone who… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I… — Chaz Bono Copy Share Image
A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
“There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are… — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
When you speak openly and honestly, you won't have to make assumptions. The day you stop making assumptions, you will communicate cleanly… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or… — Kavita Ramdas Copy Share Image
There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation.… — James W. Skehan Copy Share Image
By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth.… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes… — Neville Copy Share Image
The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're… — Adam Arkin Copy Share Image
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If people come up to me, I'm going to be nice to them. Essentially, the assumption is that they support what I… — Nick Murphy Copy Share Image
The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
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![“Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c8/orson-scott-card-134_appropriate_whether-he-likes-it-or-not-he-cannot-rem_2167820.png)
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