We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million… — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting,… — Ken McCarthy Copy Share Image
[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for… — Jean-Louis Gassee Copy Share Image
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law. — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image