Presumed Quotes
66 quotes by 60 authors
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from…
— William J. Brennan
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Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own…
— George Santayana
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All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different…
— Immanuel Kant
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If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their…
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each…
— Richard Owen
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If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy.…
— Edward Hoagland
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No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life…
— Mac Miller
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A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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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…
— Ronald Cunningham
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Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.
— Richard Dawson
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The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a…
— John F. Kerry
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Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
— James Madison
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Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial…
— Pope Francis
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During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how…
— Lynn Abbey
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The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of…
— Amartya Sen
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If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be…
— Meles Zenawi
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