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• If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good… — Edmund Burke
• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we… — Henry David Thoreau
• Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of… — Cynthia Heimel
• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow… — Bill W.
• As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens
• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When… — Plato
• A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge. — Joan D. Chittister
• We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because… — Leigh Hunt
• Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears… — Emily Dickinson
• We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume… — Milan Kundera
• We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use… — Beryl Markham
• We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the… — Guy Gavriel Kay

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