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• Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  Barack Obama

  Pride, Simple, Years

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Man's character is the product of his premises.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Men, Products

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.10, Penguin

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• I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

  Laurie Foos

  World, Lines, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.

  Jane Jacobs

  Order, Cities, Numbers

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• The Never Trumpers, they have never been guided by or governed by the premise that Hillary Clinton needs to lose. If they were on the same page as we all are, that the country, that our country needs for Hillary Clinton and the Obama agenda to lose and be stopped, they don't see that. They never have.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Needs, Agendas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

  Andrew Breitbart

  School, Objectivity, Years

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

  Chester Himes

  Men, Tolerance, Democracy

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• I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching of the Roman Congregations is about what I consider to be their fundamentally flawed premise of the objectively disordered nature of the inclination.

  James Alison

  Teaching, Currents, Homosexual

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!

  David Bowie

  Real, Mean, Guitar

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• To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for trying to falsify statements about "feelings" and relationship and to the distortions which arise whenever the products of one system of coding are dissected onto the premises of another, but especially to the fact that all such translation must give to the more or less unconscious and involuntary message the appearance of conscious intent.

  Greg Bear

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

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• We act, we behave, and we feel the vibration that we're in at the present time according to what we consider our self image to be. And we do not deviate from that pattern. The image you hold of yourself is a premise, a foundation (idea) on which your entire personality is built. This image, not only controls your behavior but your circumstances as well.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self, Ideas, Personality

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• The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in the state of Nevada, I have voted over a 100 times against tax and fee increases, poor public policy, and unconstitutional bills.

  Sharron Angle

  Believe, People, Campaigns

  "Sharron Angle: ‘Harry Reid has Failed America’". Interview with Thomas Winter, humanevents.com. June 16, 2010.

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• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

  Albert Einstein

  Theory, Impressive, Thermodynamics

  "Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist". Book by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 33, 1949.

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• The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put anti-miscegenation laws to a vote, and that would have passed pretty handily. Either all people are created equal-or they're not. You're either buying into the original premise of America-or you're not.

  Jon Stewart

  Wise, Law, America

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• I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things to the point of almost absurdity. I don't want to celebrate absurdity, but I do mean to challenge a lot of premises.

  Douglas Huebler

  Mean, Challenges, Twists

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• I think my one of my strengths in standup is my ability to adlib. I do all my best writing on stage. I can sit down and write jokes, but I'd rather go on stage with a premise or an idea and let the jokes come that way. My creative juices are never flowing any better than when I'm onstage.

  Henry Cho

  Writing, Thinking, Creative Juices

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• All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Spring, Principles, Stories

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Art, Doe, Photographer

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• Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.

  J. B. Smoove

  Believe, Writing, Challenges

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• [The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

  Sol LeWitt

  Beautiful, Artist, Play

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• I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

  W. C. Fields

  Writing, Scripts, Found

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.376, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

  Mike Bickle

  Jesus, People, Church

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• I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.

  Isaac Marion

  People, Wish, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out of the Apple boardroom and wherever else he hangs out to go and rally Millennials on the premise that Millennials will respond to Algore's claim that we are destroying the planet and that he will get their attention.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Apples, Millennials

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

  Stephanie Mills

  Pain, Short Life, Sweat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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