Proposition Quotes

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Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition. — Muhammad Yunus
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other… — Graham Chapman
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion… — Sam Harris
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found… — Robert A. Heinlein
You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the… — Emily Giffin
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the countryâ€™s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement,… — Barack Obama
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which… — Thomas Huxley
I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it… — Warren Buffett
Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the… — Terry Eagleton
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past… — Jeanette Winterson
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get… — Agatha Christie
My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorseâ€”and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the… — Daniel Dennett
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are… — Jeffery Deaver
If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by… — Jim Butcher
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett. — Agatha Christie
He broke up with me." "Because you weren't in love with him. That's an iffy proposition, and I think he's handling with grace. A lot… — Cassandra Clare
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed… — Kurt Vonnegut
You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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