Assuming Quotes

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I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be… — Christopher Hitchens
Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed… — Dan Barker
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson
Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate… — Thomas Aquinas
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. — Bertrand Russell
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life… — Antony Hewish
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay… — John Cage
Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt… — Ronald Reagan
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. — Thomas Jefferson
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to… — Thomas Jefferson
What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology… — Lionel Tiger
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers… — Alan Greenspan
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
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their… — Pope Benedict XVI
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a… — Herbert Croly
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be… — Fritz Zwicky
If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. — Jan de Hartog

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