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

Doctors Patient Stupidity Hospitals Presumption

Book:A Leg to Stand On

Source: A Leg to Stand On

“I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing.”

Thinking Knows Should Kind Law Guy Taxes Vote Paid Presumption Forbes

Author:Esther Dyson

“During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.”

Firsts Has Beens Turns Cases Taken Too Much Our Lives Risk Danger Periods Fantastic Presumption Triviality

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.”

People Thinking Has Beens Country Political Politics Rulers Other Countries Favour Disputes Presumption

Author:Edmund Burke

“A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.”

Government Political Politics Economy Knowing Virtue Ignorance Cold Commerce Calculations Statesmen Presumption Political Economy Knowing Nothing Cold Blooded Usurpers

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”

Thinking Men World Wells States Church Opinion Setting Settings All Time Rulers Dominion Separation Of Church And State Legislators Infallible Presumption Separation Between Church And State Uninspired

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence

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

Be Good Presumption

Author:Bob Brown

“Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.”

Pain Remember Suffering Causes Awakening Assumption Wrong Pauses Presumption Pain And Suffering Pausing

Author:Jennifer Young

“My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.”

Enough My Own Rooms Brain Pieces Intelligent Hot Safety Faults Intelligence Stores Primaries Equipment Entering Momentum Protective Presumption

Author:Max Barry