Presumably Quotes
87 Presumably quotes by 78 unique authors
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For the time being Scherzer gives Washington a very nice rotation (on paper) with Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmerman, Gio Gonzalez, and Doug Fister, with Tanner…
— Max Scherzer
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The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar…
— Brock Yates
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If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Some compilers allow a check during execution that subscripts do not exceed array dimensions. This is a help, but not sufficient. First, many programmers do…
— Brian Kernighan
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A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition…
— B.F. Skinner
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished…
— H. L. Mencken
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Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities…
— Peter Singer
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with…
— Buzz Bissinger
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but…
— Tom Robbins
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One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
— Sidney Nolan
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Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding…
— Jewel
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If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with…
— David Hare
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I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled…
— William E. Gladstone
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Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the…
— Tom Stoppard
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Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at the BBC, which…
— Evan Davis
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The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling…
— Frances O'Grady
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C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
— Dennis Ritchie
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
— George Steiner
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Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and…
— Edward Abbey
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If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.
— Eoin Colfer
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination…
— Clive Barker
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Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead,…
— Jodi Picoult
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