Supposing famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
-- Bertrand Russell

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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
-- David Ricardo

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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
-- Gertrude Stein

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.
-- Mark Twain

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Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.
Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.
With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13
For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it,
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad â€”