Premises Quotes

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Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed. — Al Swearengen
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious… — Henry A. Kissinger
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' — Alfred Korzybski
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy… — Ayn Rand
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions… — Morris Raphael Cohen
On investments, 1998: Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say,… — Garrison Keillor
One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises. — Bill Keller
If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone… — Al-Ghazali
Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover. — Catherine Deneuve
All proofs rest on premises. — Aristotle
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that… — John Galt
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit… — Andrea Dworkin
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. — Ayn Rand
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises. — Ayn Rand
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an… — Mahatma Gandhi
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. — John Updike
Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves. — Zygmunt Bauman
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises… — J M Coetzee
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill

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