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• I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

  Nick Kroll

  Found, Force, Ifs

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• Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

  Garrison Keillor

  Trust, Paper, Littles

  "The Times Book of Quotations". Book by HarperCollins, 2000.

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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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• The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Inquiry, Philosopher, Logical

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• If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, America, Promise

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959”, p.18, Best Books on

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• Ironically enough, if the case involves race, and one claims that race is a disqualifying factor, nobody could hear the case. Everybody comes to these cases with some preconceptions, and the premise of our judicial system is that judges by training and by ethical codes are obligated to set those prejudices aside and to decide on the facts and the law. And to claim that somebody can't simply because of their racial identity is deeply offensive.

  Deborah Rhode

  Race, Law, Judging

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Real, Blow, Creating

  "Design Guru Jeff Zeldman On Facebook, Twitter, Onanism" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. September 18, 2007.

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• As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to see that reflected via the relationships we've developed with our customers. For some people it's a political act to eat from us three days a week because they recognize they are financially supporting the premise of the project each time they come. 95% of our annual revenue is purely from the public via food sales.

  Jon Rubin

  Artist, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I try to be sensitive, but the atmosphere I create is very supportive. One overriding premise of the series is that guilt is not heritable. It's good to know about them, but you are not responsible for them. You don't have to apologize for them. It's a process of knowing, and the more you know, the richer the sense of yourself. The firmer your foundation as a human being is

  Henry Louis Gates

  Knowing, Atmosphere, Supportive

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

  Timothy Carey

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted to try something else. They came to me and said they wanted to do something that was internet focused and created original content on their site, so they could compete with the funny or dies and what not. So that was the premise, and they gave us a small amount of money, $5000, and from there it turned into the show.

  Daniel Tosh

  Couple, Trying, Comedy

  "Byt Interview: Daniel Tosh". brightestyoungthings.com. November 4, 2010.

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• I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

  Peter Kinderman

  Believe, Mental Health, Social

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Years, Waiting, Waste

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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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• It's important to me in the creation of it because I figured as soon as I crossed that threshold into effects and loops it would completely undermine the premise of how I go about creating things physically, with the instrument.

  Colin Stetson

  Creating, Important, Creation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all.

  Paul Fry

  Deployment, May, Methodology

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I came up with this idea to create an app. And the premise of the app is this: every problem in the bar business goes away when there's sales. You increase revenue and you solve every problem. It's when the revenues are low that [the business] doesn't work. So I wanted to put together an app that focused on top-line revenue, guest experience, and business management in a more organized way.

  Jon Taffer

  Ideas, Together, Lines

  Source: pocketnow.com

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• "Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Song, Mean, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We must realize that nature is absolutely essential for our survival, and we must act on that premise now.

  Edward Norton

  Survival, Essentials, Realizing

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• I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues around power and money, which are two things that have historically been denied to women. To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.

  Meera Menon

  Wall, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Scarcity, Limits, Vulnerable

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rights, Law, Pitfalls

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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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