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«Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.»
Author: Golda Meir
(Founder, Prime Minister)
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Ability
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diffidence, falls, fall short, fall short of, hits, mark, overshoots, overshot, presumption, presumptions, The Mark
«Ignorance is the mother of presumption»
«We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
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Bridges, burn, cross, presumption, presumptions, smell, smoke, watered
«Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.»
Author: Werner von Braun
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Existence,
Living,
Universe
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billion, billions, enormous, galaxies, galaxy, height, immensity, populate, populated by, populating, presumption, presumptions, the Galaxy
«It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all»
Author: Heinrich Heine
(Poet, Writer)
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addition, additions, enjoying, inordinate, in addition, presumption, presumptions
«It's a naive domestic little Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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amused, breeding, burgundy, domestic, naive, presumption, presumptions
«Despair ruins some, presumption many»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Despair
| Keywords:
presumption, presumptions, ruins
«That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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anxious, borne, famous, famous people, offers, outer, photography, presumption, presumptions, revelation, Revelation of
«There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Events
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altering, assume, invention, obligation, participated, participating, presumption, presumptions
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