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“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.”
wolfdyke Douglas Adams quotes (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)
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“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
ananya George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)
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“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
dmg Isaac Asimov quotes (Russian born American science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)
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“In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is”
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“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.”
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“All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent”
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“My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has molded itself on my deformaties, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old f”
Victor Hugo quotes (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

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“Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.”


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“There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.”

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“Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.”
Pablo Picasso quotes (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
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assumed synonyms: false, falser, falsest, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham, shams, taken for granted.

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