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• What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker
• Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. — Ambrose Bierce
• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler
• I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on… — Jimmy Carter
• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain
• Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. — Ambrose Bierce
• The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
• A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things… — Albert Einstein
• The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his… — Hugh Miller
• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein
• ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — Unknown Author
• Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that… — Andre-Marie Ampere

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