Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan 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
In a mathematical proposition, for example, the objectivity is given, but therefore its truth is also an indifferent truth. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it. — Milton Friedman 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
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Define a winning proposition that is consumer right and delivers margin accretion. — Michael J. Silverstein 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
Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them.… — Carol Roth Copy Share Image
Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about… — David A. Aaker 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
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are… — Collin Peterson Copy Share Image
There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long… — M. Stanton Evans Copy Share Image
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
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien… — Stanton T. Friedman 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
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable… — Daniel Kahneman 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
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the… — Herbert Spencer 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
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
