Assumed Quotes
439 quotes by 377 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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