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«True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.»
«The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character»
«There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.»
Author: Giacomo Leopardi | Keywords: presume, presume to
«When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift»
«True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.»
«The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.»

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