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• It is all about keeping her [Hillary Clinton] and her husband [Bill Clinton] as far away from the levers of power as possible. It is all about ending this woman's political career. There are people that are totally devoted to that concept, that premise.

  Donald Trump

  Husband, Careers, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• 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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• If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Character, Stories, Want

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Objectivity, Ideas, Perfect

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• The realm of the real is Spirit. The unlikeness of Spirit is matter, and the opposite of the real is not divine, it is a human concept. Matter is an error of statement. This error in the premise leads to errors in the conclusion in every statement into which it enters. Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.335, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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• To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.

  Jonathan M. Goldstein

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

  David Kim

  Doe, Fundamentals, Waking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Democrats are unified under the premise of total political annihilation.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Annihilation, Democrat

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been different, we could have spared ourselves all kinds of suffering. More recently it's been turned into a comedic trope. As we go forward, tragedy plus time equals comedy...

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Feelings, Suffering, Tragedy

  "Back to the Führer: This Guy Studies Baby Hitler Time Machine Scenarios". Interview with Dave Glison, www.motherjones.com. October 23, 2015.

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• So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

  Amy Waldman

  Virginia, Names, Design

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• After all, the American society has been also based on the premise of expanding education very early. That's been [one] of the main sources of success of the Americans. And there is something that the world can learn from it and also be assisted by the United States along with Europe and the rest of the world. I really hope that this is an issue that engages the American public.

  Amartya Sen

  Europe, Issues, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Motor Vehicles, Cities, Important

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• The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

  Carl Jung

  Psychology, Body, Unions

  Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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• American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

  Al Gore

  War, Winning, Sight

  "How to Debate George Bush" by Al Gore, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Movement, Affair

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

  Karl Marx

  Firsts, Facts, Individual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.42, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Insanity, Insane

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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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• A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. ... Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Integrity, Government, People

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• Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.

  Jesse Jackson

  Views, Order, People

  "How we respect life is the over-riding moral issue" by Jesse Jackson in "Right to Life News", groups.csail.mit.edu. January 1977.

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• A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

  John F. Kerry

  People, Fundamentals, Figures

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Demand, Serious

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. November 29, 2006.

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• All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.

  Aldo Leopold

  Team, Men, Land

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic", p. 203-204, 1949.

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