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• They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible.
  Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.

  Marcus Garvey

  Running, Men, Brain

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1983). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• The power of story is potent and that's why historical fiction can be an extraordinarily significant way of teaching people logical truth propositions, moves you along, moves your emotions as well as informs your intellect.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Teaching, Moving, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Two, Historical, Different

  "The Development of Capitalism in Russia". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter VIII: "The Formation of the Home Market", www.marxists.org. 1899.

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• Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Lying, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

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• Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

  Puggy Pearson

  Knowing, Gambling, Three

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• Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Music Is, Preparing, Expensive

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• I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

  Michael Polanyi

  Data, Natural, Definite

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• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  Nassau William Senior

  Errors, Government, Would Be

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• At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

  Sebastian Thrun

  The End Of The Day, Employment, Ends

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• General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Decision, Intuition, Judgment

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• I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ends, Chiefs

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• We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Now And Then, Willing

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• True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Believe, Communication

  J.C Ryle, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “PRACTICAL RELIGION”, Lulu.com

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• The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

  Thomas Huxley

  Nature, Work, Teaching

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

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• California’s Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.

  Michael Pollan

  California, Labels, Genetically Modified

  "Vote for the Dinner Party". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8.

  Brad Pitt

  Live Life, America, Desire

  "Brad Pitt comes out against gay marriage ban proposal" by Kevin Anderson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Thinking, May

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• In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.

  A.J. Ayer

  Philosophy, Character, Enquiry

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• Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Doe, Addresses

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or sophistry. For it strikes him with two terrible weapons, Intuition and Beauty, and at the single root in him of all his energies... Art and Poetry awaken the dreams of man, and his longings, and reveal to him some of the abysses he has in himself.

  Jacques Maritain

  Dream, Art, Men

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• ...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place. And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the Michigan State Medical Society as a body. Recommending the addition of a trace of iodine to table salt.

  David Murray Cowie

  Simple, Iodine, Would Be

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• What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

  Jay Carney

  Foundation, World, Republican

  "Carney: GOP threatens economy" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. October 01, 2013.

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• A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Study, Logical

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.155, Routledge

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• Except for its backward compatibility with existing Wii software and accessories, we have so far failed to make propositions worthy of Wii U's position as a successor to the Wii system.

  Satoru Iwata

  Playing Games, Accessories, Wii

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