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

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

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Winning, Assumption, Resolution

A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past.

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Past, Needs, Assumption
Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.121, Counterpoint

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