“ Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
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“ Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. ”
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“ Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament. ”
- Jacques Chirac- Copy
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“ We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. ”
- William Orville Douglas- Copy
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“ Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even Science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and must fix on a point in the stars' unceasing journey when his sidereal clock shall pretend that time is Nought… ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonwealth, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: earthquake. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future — and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ”
- Louis Aragon- Copy
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“ The Eucharist is not itself the sacrament of reconciliation, but in fact it presupposes that sacrament. It is the sacrament of the reconciled, to which the Lord invites all those who have become one with him; who certainly still remain weak sinners, but yet have give their hand to him and have become part of his family… ”
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