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• I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Burden Of Proof, People, Suffering

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• Tal es la incertidumbre de los asuntos humanos, que la seguridad y la desesperación son locuras iguales; y así como es presunción y arrogancia anticipar triunfos, es debilidad y cobardía prog-nosticar abortos.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Arrogance, Despair

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The rambler”, p.263

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• Hay algo infantil en la presunción de que otra persona tiene la responsabilidad de dar sentido y significado a tu vida... Por el contrario, la visión verdaderamente adulta es que nuestra vida tiene tanto sentido, es tan plena y tan maravillosa como nosotros decidamos hacerla.

  Richard Dawkins

  Meaningful, Atheist, Responsibility

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

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• There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

  Bob Brown

  Sé bueno

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Las plantas miran al cielo, de donde obtienen su alimento.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Heaven, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.139

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• Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.

  Galileo Galilei

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

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• Creo que tengo derecho a saber lo que Steve Forbes pagó de impuestos, pero no creo que deba haber una ley. Creo que debería haber una presunción. Yo no votaría a un tipo que no revela lo que paga en impuestos. Ese tipo de cosas.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, Law, Guy

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• Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.

  Hart Crane

  Mean, Epic, Bridges

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  El poder tiende a corromper, y el poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.

  Lord Acton

  Inspiración, Liderazgo, Trabajo

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• Así, el pueblo pagará el castigo por la presunción de sus reyes, que, urdiendo el mal, desvían la justicia de su camino con tortuosas palabras.

  Hesiod

  Kings, People, Evil

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• If the professed convert distinctly and deliberately declares that he knows the Lord's will, but does not mean to attend to it, you are not to pamper his presumptions, but it is your duty to assure him that he is not saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Doe, Lord

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.38, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

  Robert Creeley

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

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• The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

  Alonzo Church

  Choices, Annoyed, Looks

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• If you want to enter a state of grace,
  question the assumption you’re defending right now.

  Byron Katie

  Grace, Want, Assumption

  Twitter post from Dec 09, 2012

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• Perder lo que nunca hemos poseído podría parecer un duelo excéntrico, pero la presunción tiene su propia aflicción, además de reclamo.

  Emily Dickinson

  Bereavement, Might, Eccentric

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.62, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Nuestro Sol es una de las 100.000 millones de estrellas de nuestra galaxia. Nuestra galaxia es una de los miles de millones de galaxias que pueblan el universo. Sería el colmo de la presunción pensar que somos el único ser vivo en esa enorme inmensidad.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

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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

  Dream, Children, Errors

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.188, Vintage

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• Pettiness of mind, ignorance and presumption are the cause of stubbornness, because stubborn people only want to believe what they themselves can imagine, and they can imagine very few things.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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• A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

  Susan Sontag

  May, Photograph, Proof

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Una de las grandes debilidades de la teoría libertaria estándar es que tiende a presionar demasiado al elevar las presunciones a absolutos.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Weakness, Libertarian, Theory

  "Skepticism and Freedom". Book by Richard Epstein, 2003.

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• There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

  Oliver Sacks

  Doctors, Stupidity, Patient

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.96, Pan Macmillan

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• There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Eye, Weight, Promotion

  "Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2016.

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• ...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Office, Vote, Behavior

  Joseph J. Ellis (2003). “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation”, p.162, Vintage

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• A lo largo de la mayor parte de nuestra historia, nada -ni inundaciones, hambrunas, plagas o nuevas armas- ha puesto en peligro a la humanidad ni una décima parte de lo que lo ha hecho el ego narcisista, con sus presunciones engreídas y sus engendros infernales de miedo y codicia.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Greed, Humanity

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• No hay gente corriente. Nunca has hablado con un simple mortal. Las naciones, las culturas, las artes, las civilizaciones son mortales, y su vida es para la nuestra como la vida de un mosquito. Pero es con los inmortales con quienes bromeamos, trabajamos, nos casamos, desairamos y explotamos: horrores inmortales o esplendores eternos. Esto no significa que debamos ser perpetuamente solemnes. Debemos jugar. Pero nuestra alegría debe ser del tipo (y es, de hecho, del tipo más alegre) que existe entre personas que, desde el principio, se han tomado en serio mutuamente: sin chulerías, sin superioridad, sin presunción.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Taken, Mean

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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