A Quote by Wendell Berry

If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
American - Novelist
Born: August 5, 1934

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Agnes Repplier

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

Agnes Repplier

I start out with the assumption that a lawyer in a criminal case is going to be incompetent - substantially so. I find my assumption to be rarely wrong. Yet society starts out with the very opposite assumption.

Vincent Bugliosi

Closely allied to the assumption that Democrats can't win because they're too secular is the view that they can't win if they're too liberal. This assumption has steered Hillary Clinton toward the center, following her husband. I tend to share this view myself.

Jacob Weisberg

What we've been trying to do is difficult. You know it's difficult to win one, to win two. Madness to win three. But to try and come back to win it again should be impossible really.

Brian Cody

Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.

Margery Wilson

It's always great to play at home. I won here last year and it's great to start with a win like this today. The first match was difficult and I thought it was step in the right direction.

Gustavo Kuerten

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Bum Phillips

It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the sense that you wake up, you're depressed; you talk to your friends, you're complaining that you're depressed; you talk to your parents, you're unmotivated. You know what you could do to try to overcome it - although obviously there's no cure - but you start to feel like, 'what will happen to me if I feel better? Who am I when I'm happy. I'm so used to feeling like this.'

Halsey

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

Steven Biko

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

Daniel Kaluuya

It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.

O. T. Fagbenle

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

Henry A. Kissinger

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

Robert Ringer

When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.

Adrian Lewis

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

C. S. Lewis

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