In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Bertrand Russell

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Edmund Burke

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The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

John Muir

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Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society.
I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment.

Toba Beta

Tags: science life society technology old presumption witchcraft treatment demand new cycle trend cursed presume used



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When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

Walter Kirn

Tags: politics presumption taylor-swift twitter spiderman noam-chomsky 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game emanuel-bronner jared-lee-loughner



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If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall,
then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

Toba Beta

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... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

Mortimer J. Adler

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A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

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It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.

Pere La Combe

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Pastor McFucking Bride this . . . Pastor McFucking Bride that. Fuck him!

S.B. Redd

Tags: relationships fiction presumption divorce african-american paternity presumption-of-paternity s-b-redd



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