Assumed Quotes

439 quotes by 377 authors

If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by… — Isaac Newton
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as… — Charles Darwin
Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that… — Jimmy Carter
Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would… — Max Born
I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of… — Charles Darwin
We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will… — Jay Inslee
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to… — William J. Clinton
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… — Richard Dawkins
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the… — Betty Buckley
I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and… — Albert Hofmann
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by… — Henry David Thoreau
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,… — Unknown Author
Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture… — Jerry Sabloff
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the… — Roderick Murchison
A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a… — Thomas Paine
Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors… — Lowitja O'Donoghue

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