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• You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Casting, Couches, Knows

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• I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Henry V, Modest

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• I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

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• Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Meat, Eating

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• This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Religious, Strong

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.75, Best Books on

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• Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition.

  Manu Dibango

  Successful, Artist, Talking

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• I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.

  Adam Schlesinger

  Jobs, Thinking, Games

  "Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne and Ivy)". Mars Investigations Interview, www.marsinvestigations.net. October 31, 2005.

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• All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, Reading, Knees

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 604), 1995.

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• Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Jesus, Media

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• The problem is that Iran has been identified as a dangerous enemy, and the longer the media forwards that proposition - and the media is guilty, just as it was in the Iraq war - then the easier it becomes for Americans to accept that we might just have to resort to military force to remove any Iranian threat.

  Hooman Majd

  Military, War, Media

  "Interview with Hooman Majd: US-Iran Relations in the Age of the Ayatollah". Interview with Jon Letman, mronline.org. October 4, 2010.

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• There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

  Elaine Stritch

  Hard Work, Attention, Unattractive

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?

  George Pattison

  Christian, Attitude, Teaching

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meaningful, War, People

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• The law of chastity is not a negative proposition, but a positive one because in its observance there are spiritual values that far outweigh the physical dangers that we often emphasize. I believe the chances are that our children will respond to the positive attitude quicker and more thoroughly than they do to the negative. Let's show them the values that there are in that law.

  Antoine R. Ivins

  Spiritual, Children, Attitude

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• I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.

  Steve Martin

  Girl, Wedding, Falling In Love

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• If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

  Herodotus

  Men, Bidding, World

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• Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is that the IPCC has been built on the AGW proposition and of course keeps plugging it, whatever the data say. The IPCC has considerable clout. Most people shy off inspecting the evidence because it looks like science and must therefore be hard. The media have been captured by AGW (it makes for great stories), the environmental movement and the Greens love it, and business is reluctant to get involved.

  Don Aitkin

  Media, Data, People

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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 Kern Feibleman

  Appreciation, Kindness, Not Giving Up

  James Kern Feibleman (1969). “The Way of a Man: An Autobiography of James K. Feibleman”

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• Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society. It’s a pretty simple proposition.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Gay, Bisexual

  Barack Obama's Remarks at the Human Rights Campaign's Annual National Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 1, 2011.

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• I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, People, Understanding

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• All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Want, Proof

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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• The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Vices, Vice Versa

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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• A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Strong, Fire, Judging

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• Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

  Andrew Sarris

  Opinion, Reputation, Film

  Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

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• It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

  Karl Marx

  Littles, Way, Ass

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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