1. "Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?"
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Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from St. Thomas Aquinas
2. "Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you who were Existence Yourself forgot to live"
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Quote by Emily Dickinson
3. "In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him."
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Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
4. "The à priori presumption is in favour of freedom and impartiality."
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John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
5. "The way of the gospel is neither paranoia nor presumption but rather wisdom, care, and freedom."
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Scotty Smith, Everyday Prayers: 365 Days to a Gospel-Centered Faith
6. "Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved."
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Emily Post, Emily Post On Etiquette
7. "They know, too, that while in history-building a fact is better than a presumption, it doesn't take a presumption long to bloom into a fact when THEY have the handling of it."
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Mark Twain, The Complete Mark Twain Collection
8. "The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts."
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John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
9. "To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim --"
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Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
10. "There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point"
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Quote by Richard Dawkins