“ The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 496
“ Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ”
- Alan Alda- Copy
- 833
“ Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 3K
“ ID4 felt like so completely the best disaster movie to be in - so brilliant and unusual. The whole premise of doing a flood or lava… I just go the other way. ”
- Bill Pullman- Copy
- 2K
“ Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from? ”
- Richard Hatch- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ”
- Harry A. Blackmun- Copy
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“ What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity. ”
- William Zinsser- Copy
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“ A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 456
“ God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive… ”
- J. J. Rousseau- Copy
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“ You see, you all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn. I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination… ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
- 115
“ I don't work with high-concept things that start with a premise, Wouldn't it be funny if there was this spy who met a… For me, it could be, What about people who sell shoes? That must be a bizarre world… when they meet at conventions and talk about shoes. ”
- Christopher Guest- Copy
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“ Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premises on which the system is based are an untenable illusion… ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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