Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must…

I find myself frequently placed where I dare give neither assent nor dissent to propositions that are submitted to me; for there is danger…

— Ellen G. White

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

— William Shakespeare

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even if the absence of evidence for a given god were not evidence of its absence, it would still be evidence that the belief…

— Scott Clifton

Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is…

— Ann Coulter

hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ‚‚ out of…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves,…

— Henri Poincare

The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media…

— Hooman Majd

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

— Baruch Spinoza

It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,…

— John Maynard Keynes

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities,…

— Thomas Malthus

If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in…

— Dolores Huerta

Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

— James Madison

On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally…

— Helen Kieran Reilly