The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the… — Gale Sayers Copy Share Image
I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm.… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed,… — Vaughn Walker Copy Share Image
Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the… — Manu Dibango Copy Share Image
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You talk to people who serve you the food the same way you talk to the people you eat the food with.… — Claudia Shear Copy Share Image
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets… — Orison S. Marden Copy Share Image
“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power.… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief;… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
