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439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created… — Stanley Hauerwas
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man… — Stanley Hauerwas
I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit.… — Stanley Hauerwas
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come… — Sendhil Mullainathan
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of… — Seth Shostak
For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the New… — Elaine Pagels
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case. — Rebecca MacKinnon
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After… — Bill Dedman
There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in… — Torrey DeVitto
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research… — Jill Lepore
We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image. — Leonard Mlodinow
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation… — Oliver Ellsworth
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it… — Karl Ferdinand Braun
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us… — Madison Smartt Bell
Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we… — George Pierce Baker
The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth.… — Samuel P. Huntington
It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse. — Frederick Pollock
It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering,… — Walter Kaufmann
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the… — Jack Schwartz
Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect. — James Nasmyth
The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they… — Rene Cassin
In due course, following an additional debriefing, the FBI confirmed to me and to my former counsel, Tom Carter, that I was not a suspect… — Steven Hatfill
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and… — Saul Perlmutter
I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle. — Gary Locke

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