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«The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
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«A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.»
«Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.»
Author: Paul A. Samuelson
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Globalization
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«Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.»
Author: Stephen Leacock
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Electricity
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«Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man»
«Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor»
«In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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«True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
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«The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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«He that knows least commonly presumes most»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Knowledge
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