Proposition Quotes

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Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… — Simone de Beauvoir
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or… — Jacques Maritain
...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical… — David Murray Cowie
What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a… — Jay Carney
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as… — Ron Kind
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether. — Thomas Young
I accept the proposition that... to judge is an exercise of power and because ... there is no objective stance but only a series of… — Sonia Sotomayor
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living. — Thomas Szasz
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative. — E L Doctorow
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition. — Sri Aurobindo
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that… — Alvin Plantinga
Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is… — Carol Roth
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. Thatâ€™s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing. — Cornelia Parker
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy… — Jonah Goldberg
Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty… — Ann Coulter
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die,… — Mahatma Gandhi

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