As guest editor of the New Statesman's Christmas issue, Dawkins wrote: "A depressingly large number of intelligent and educated people, having outgrown religious faith themselves, still vaguely presume without thinking about it that religious faith is somehow good for other people, good for society, good for public order, good for instilling morals".
He writes: "A depressingly large number of intelligent and educated people, despite having outgrown religious faith, still vaguely presume without thinking about it that religious faith is somehow good for other people, good for society, good for public order, good for instilling morals, good for the common people even if we chaps don't need it.
But that thinking presumed that his opponent would be Representative Michael N. Castle, a popular Republican moderate.
In neither is independent thinking presumed to be a requisite of holding a job.
Investors, who were already worried about weakness in demand for the memory chips during the rest of this year, were apparently not thinking about presumed innocence.
Magical thinking presumes a causal link between one's inner, personal experience and the external physical world.
This way of thinking presumes that a candidate can gain a huge advantage in California by scoring a victory a week or so earlier in Iowa or New Hampshire.
These subordinated the elected Prime Minister to a President presumed closer to military thinking.
Please huddle around the toasty fire of your Web browser and enjoy the harvest: A. It shall be unlawful, illegal, and unethical to think, think of thinking, surmise, presume, reason, meditate, or speculate while in the Doldrums.
Later, in 2000, after being trounced by the current president in the primaries for being presumed too left in his thinking, he determined to come back and reinvent himself as a true conservative, not unlike George Wallace who once said after a loss for governor of Alabama that "no other son-of-a-bitch would ever out-nigger me again".
The problem is that many businesses are spending too little time thinking strategically about promotions — presuming that giving money away has to work.
