“We can't exactly figure out why, but our customers have no fears of using their checking account, while credit cards are still a problem. I'm assuming checks have been around longer, and are more trusted, while credit cards have a sort of stigma attached to them.” Has BeensStillsProblemFiguresAccountsAssumingCreditCustomersChecksCardsTrustedNo FearCredit CardStigmaHave No FearChecking Accounts Author:Tim Stevens
“I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.” FeelsFoundEmotionCasesAccountsAssumingStrikesAweAffectedReverenceIndulgeTravellerJerusalemDevotional Book:Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ... Source: Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...
“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.” PeopleIfsCareSpiritNationsResponsibilityDemocracyDiseaseAccountsAssumingIllnessHealth CareSicknessVolume Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart
“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.” ThinkingKnowsWayIdeasFactsFormUsedUnderstandingAcceptingKnowingUnderstoodAccountsAssumingFamiliarUsed To BeAnalysisThoughtfulDeceivingPros And Cons Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.” WorldRealitySpaceMiddleObjectsOrdinaryAccountsFundamentalsStructureAssumingRejectsFlatsTime And Space Author:L.A. Paul
“The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.” IfsMenShouldSoulFactsLanguageGivenWrittenMankindSpeechAccountsAssumingMentality Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.” SoulEndsDreamEvilEconomyAccountsAssuming Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche