Proposition Quotes

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In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we… — James MacDonald
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with… — Sam Keen
Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible… — Maria Shriver
Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can… — Leon Wieseltier
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All… — John Stuart Mill
hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking COâ‚‚ out of the… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly,… — Herbert Spencer
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature. — Richard M. Nixon
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of… — Alberto Moravia
Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. — Robert Breault
Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into… — Grace Napolitano
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is… — John Boyle O'Reilly
Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new… — Michel de Montaigne
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean. — William Wilberforce
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write… — Tim Cahill
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition. — E. Stanley Jones
California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the… — Michael Pollan
Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the… — Brad Pitt
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be… — Christopher Hitchens

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