Proposition Quotes

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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition. — Wheeler McMillen
It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to… — Albert Einstein
The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one… — Tony Abbott
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. — Winston Churchill
Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition… — Jay Leno
The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but… — Lin Yutang
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… — John Berger
I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I… — Grandma Moses
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought… — Rudolf Steiner
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept… — Eugenie Scott
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them… — Ronald Reagan
True love has always been a two-way proposition. — Jon Jones
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself. — Puggy Pearson
Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that… — Alfred North Whitehead
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a… — Alan Greenspan
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from,… — Rachel Cusk
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I… — Pierre de Fermat

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