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439 Assumed quotes by 377 unique authors

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
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were… — Unknown Author
I've always assumed there's a dark river flowing beneath my fans' desires. — Steven Morrissey
We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is… — Unknown Author
Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where… — Tim Winton
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the… — Thomas Paine
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to… — Unknown Author
I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my… — Evangeline Lilly
It was scary to be in that world of politics. I felt uncomfortable to be in that discussion. The weird thing is, when Darrell Hammond… — Tina Fey

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