Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (1794)]

~ Edmund Burke

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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

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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

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He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

~ Dan Jones

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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

~ Albert Camus

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And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you’ve pulled. It don’t matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.

~ S.b. Redd

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

~ S.b. Redd

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One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

~ Anthony Liccione

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When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility. She could sip from that cup. It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

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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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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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His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.

~ Angela N. Blount

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[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning, and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

~ Richard Baxter

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As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.

~ Connie Brockway

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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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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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It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.

~ J.c. Ryle

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Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.

~ Dashanne Stokes

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

~ Edmund Burke

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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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