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“The image is made to order, tailored to us. An ideal, on the hand, has a claim on us. It does not serve us, we serve it. If we have trouble striding toward it, we assume the matter is with us, and not the ideal.”

Ifs Doe Made Matter Hands Order Trouble Ideals Claims Assuming Tailored

Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”

Needs Writing Romance Certain Wish Felt Novel Fashion Materials Claims Assuming Entitled Latitude

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about.”

Knows Way Firsts May Doe Two Talking Known Atheism Claims Assuming Atheist Positive Atheism Two Ways Admission Theist

Book:Why Atheism?

Source: Why Atheism?

“It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).”

Mind Different States Pain Impossible Involved Conscious Claims Assuming Painful Metaphysical Ruling Thesis

Author:Elliott Sober

“Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.”

People Ifs Want Believe Helping Seems Care Political Politics Particular Solutions Claims Assuming Don't Believe Liberalism

Author:Thomas Sowell

“And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.”

People Knows World Trying Said Passion Interest Risk Particular Claims Assuming Guides Arrogance Without Love Fathom Wheel Of Time

Book:Towers of Midnight

Source: Towers of Midnight

“And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.”

People Ifs Made Claims Assuming Caught

Book:The Name of the Star

Source: The Name of the Star

“I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.”

People Knows Humans May Long Causes Issues Willing Consequence Claims Assuming Climate Climate Change Acknowledge Global Warming Abandoned Long Ago Behaviour Coverage Pretence Impartiality

Author:Jeremy Paxman

“I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.”

Mean I Can Trouble Havens Claims Regard Assuming Suspicion

Book:A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'