The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. -- William John Bennett
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. -- Herb Brody
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. -- Charles Robert Darwin
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. -- Marilyn Ferguson
People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes -- Jack Handey Deep Thoughts