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Premises Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think…
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in…
- A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.
- 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…
- Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
- There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.
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- 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