“ I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions — adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ 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 is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Faith is not a series of gilt — edged propositions that you sit down to figure out, and if you follow all the logic and accept all the conclusions, then you have it. It is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair. ”
- Mary Jean Irion- Copy
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“ Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language. ”
- Austin Elliot- Copy
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“ As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
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“ I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends… that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.- Copy
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“ The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ”
- Roy Hattersley- Copy
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“ Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. ”
- Lao tzu- Copy
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“ A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ”
- Paul Erdos- 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
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“ Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
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“ That is laid out in my comprehensive anti-corruption proposal. ”
- Jon Corzine- Copy
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“ Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems. ”
- Steven Chu- Copy
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“ As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true. ”
- Michel De Certeau- Copy
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“ The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. ”
- Lazarus Long- Copy
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“ On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. ”
- H. Allen Smith- Copy
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“ Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
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“ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. ”
- Alfred Korzybski- Copy
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“ That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ”
- James K. Feibleman- Copy
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“ I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. ”
- Russell Long- Copy
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“ Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are "shaggy dog" stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. ”
- Dean Smith- Copy
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