Premises Quotes

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Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning… — Jeremy Clarkson
The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Two students severely injured, you yourself covered in blood, a Reaper on the premises, a Fenrir wolf running around loose somewhere, and extensive property damage… — Jennifer Estep
My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free? — Vladimir Nabokov
How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . .… — William Wilberforce
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about;… — Alfred Korzybski
Good morning, Ms. Daniels. Iâ€™m calling to inform you that Julie has left our premises.â€ Not again. Curranâ€™s arms closed around me and he hugged… — Ilona Andrews
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. — Mahatma Gandhi
In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and… — Benjamin N. Cardozo
In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move… — George Pierce Baker
If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that… — Gregory Bateson
When such a perfect society will be created or if it will ever be created is a question as difficult to answer as if the… — Sorin Cerin
In the best farce to-day we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move… — George P Baker
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler — Samuel Butler
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross… — David Horowitz
We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years,… — Markus Wolf
I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a… — Henry David Thoreau
Yeah I came as soon as I got that ultrasound goo off my pelvis. It was crazy actually, my step-mom verbally abused the ultrasound tech… — Juno (The Movie)
Everyone is born with the power to choose for themselves; to lead a life on their own premises, without any restrictions as to whom they… — Mathias Folsted
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination.… — Melchor Lim

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