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assumption
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. John Fiske
assumption opinions origin spirit
The persecuting spirit has its origin . . . in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
assumption fallacy humans
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
assumption based happens highly lottery poll tickets until
We want to see first how the lottery is received. Based on all of the polls, we're making the assumption that it's going to be very highly received. But a poll is a poll, and until we actually see what happens when tickets go on sale, we'll have a better idea by then.
assumption dead evidence intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals
We have no intelligence or evidence that indicates that he (Bin Laden) is dead or incapacitated, so our working assumption is that he is still alive.
assumption immediate indication left somewhere
We have no indication that he has left this immediate area, so we make the assumption that he is still afoot or ... holed up somewhere in this area,
assumption choice given guns natural question relationship revisit schools
We have no choice but to revisit the question on other bills. Especially given the relationship between guns and schools these days, I think it's a natural assumption that one could make that there could be some amendments which will be offered, Tom Daschle
assumption false money people time
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop. Natalie Massenet
assumption enhances family finding reality reflects supposedly viability women work
What this finding reflects is the dissonance of today's reality and yesterday's old ideas. There's the assumption that family for women detracts from work while for men it supposedly enhances their viability and stability. Ellen Galinsky
charitable input insight paying question rather rich sell spend
Philanthropists today want input into how their monies are being deployed. The big question is, can governments use this insight to sell the rich the idea of paying more tax rather than spend more on charitable giving?
charitable
She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet.
charitable contained currently disclose easier including information irs private returns rule social
The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations. Melissa Bean
charitable code ensuring fair home nation ownership pays promote reform simpler tax
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.
charitable england view
My suspicion, in England at least, is that the more charitable view will prevail. Michael Atherton
charitable good groups percent
Ninety-five percent of the charitable groups out there are doing very, very good work. Dana Williams
charitable good obvious whether
There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole. Chuck Schumer
charitable elite form government people private tax
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. Robert Reich
charitable college course elect encourage involved school service vocational work
We try to encourage them to go to a vocational school or take a college course or they can elect to do charitable work and be involved in a service organization.
christian courage firsts
A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. Charles Caleb Colton
christian white house
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
christian hate envy
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
christian mind sorrow
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.
christian lying thinking
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
christian regret mean
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Charles Dickens
christian years games
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
christian prayer mean
Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands. Charles Studd
christian real venture
Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
christians personal touch
We feel that sometimes the personal touch from other Christians is important.
christians good life people sorts trust
There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists. Joe Slovo
christians devoted neither people professed
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
christians hindus ourselves
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists. Azim Premji
christians liberal obey rule secular separation thomas
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule of law; that there must be a separation of church and state. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
christians democratic room
There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party. Ted Cruz
christians endure expression free jews religious
Many Christians and Jews have had to endure the satirizing of their own religious figures. It's called the free expression of ideas. William Green
christians opportunity people
I think many times Christians don't really take the opportunity to hear what people are saying and seeing in the world around them. Erwin McManus
christians faith lost soon sounds telling
I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.
critical focus stretch winning
We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us. Tony Dungy
critical stage
We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,
critical people time
We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.
critical-spirit habit critical
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. Edward Everett Hale
critical literally room
We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us. Dave Wannstedt
critical injuries minor multiple serious
We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,
critical department fatal suffers whenever
Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.
critical our-lives anything-is-possible
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything. Bill Walton
critical people reporters time truth war whining
While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth. Judd Rose
facts may opinion
You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a # fact . Charles Spurgeon
factor growth leading robert since success thank valuable vision
We want to thank Robert for his valuable contribution to the Company's development and growth since its inception, ... His entrepreneurial vision has been a leading factor in our success to date.
facts embarrassing theft
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. David Graeber
facts economic globalization
Globalization is a fact of economic life Carlos Salinas de Gortari
facts sacred comment
Comment is free but facts are sacred. C. P. Scott
facts republican celebrate
Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
fact feels funny might mug people twice wake
I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny. Luke Bracey
fact positives truth
The positives are closure. The fact is we participated with an ineligible player. That's the truth. You can't sugar-coat that.
fact last proud
We are proud of the fact that we surpassed last year's donation.
giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite.
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
giving missionary missions
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
giving may gift-giving
You may have the gift of giving. Charles Stanley
giving-up believe belief
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
giving heaven littles
There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
half linux firsts
I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.) Charles Stross
half empty gods-will
If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill. Aiden Wilson Tozer
half safe matter
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. David R. Brower
half intensity played second slow
We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half.
halfway michigan respecting seven state ten
We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).
halftime hard played struggled
We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better.
half pulled second
We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away.
half missing three top
We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket.
half period second spent team wears
We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us. Jeff Carter
individual express-yourself circumstances
Circumstances beyond my individual control.
individual-effort achievement done
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.
individual enjoyment incapable
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts
individual circumstances values
Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control. Charles Lindbergh
individuality apes firsts
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes. Dian Fossey
individual-effort generations lifetime
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. Elizabeth Kostova
individual ends made
The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it. Charles Handy
individual promising recognized
What's so promising about this is that we have all recognized as individual organizations that we can't do this alone.
individuality promise fruit
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual. Bella Abzug
preference
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne
preference mathematician indifferent
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. Alfred North Whitehead
preference rights stick
If they are successful, they will be doing a very chunky rights issue. Our preference is that they stick to what they've got and do that better.
preference strong
I have a strong preference for being alive. Alan Alda
preference
Our preference would be to have a seven-day recovery. Mark Thompson
preference return striking strong work workers
Our strong preference is to have our striking workers return to work.
preference
My preference would be to deploy them as warriors, (rather than peacekeepers), Dick Cheney
preference wear
Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans. Orlando Bloom
preference strong
You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely. Larry Ellison
shows show-business
I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. Dick Cavett
shows
I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time. Ed Sullivan
shows smartest
Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show. Monica Raymund
shows
We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,
shows
I never set out to do a sketch show. Demetri Martin
shows
I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character. Tracie Thoms
shows prepared bits
The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show. Brian Henson
shows whenever
Whenever I've seen shows or films set here, they just don't feel like the real Nashville to me. Callie Khouri
shows strangest-secret
What's going on in the inside shows on the outside. Earl Nightingale
study closets instructors
The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.
study communism soviet
I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. Madeleine Albright
study bible-study pointless
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless. Bill Johnson
study
We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.
study braille anatomy
Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille. Ava Gardner
study silent dare
Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent! Eliphas Levi
studying worked
When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.
study
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Maria Mitchell
study
I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together. Prince
supportive actors
Actors are actually very supportive of each other. Alan Rickman
support
We want to support the PGA and its members.
support good-and-bad folks
To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you... Chris Copeland
support-you people way
There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you. Chris Colfer
support information prejudice
We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion. David Suzuki
support fields lucky
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot. Bryan Burrough
support cost benefits
Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created. Bryan Stevenson
support feminism world
Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university Camille Paglia
supportive bills path
I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result Carl Levin
target film sometimes
You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make. Alan Rudolph
target
To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target. Ashleigh Brilliant
target gray score
If you don't hit the target, you're never gonna score Andy Gray
target
We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.
target
I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.
target genius talent
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see. Arthur Schopenhauer
target assistants normal
I have a very normal life. I go to the grocery store, I go to Target. I don't have an assistant, I don't have an entourage. Angela Kinsey
target today entertainment
Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs. Cliff Stearns
target-audience suffering actors-and-audience
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. Alfred Hitchcock
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding sides stories
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. Chinua Achebe
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.