Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition. — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful… — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers… — Fritz Machlup Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image