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• Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to work hard, and that's it.

  Gale Sayers

  Football, Hard Work, Ability

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• Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

  Julia Gillard

  Leadership, Past, Thinking

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• We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

  Anita Roddick

  Animal, Simple, Age

  "Business as Unusual, continued: deck here, too" by Anita Roddick, www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2001.

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• The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.

  Pope Pius X

  Christian, Salvation, Creeds

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• It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable

  Theodor Herzl

  Attitude, Father, Fate

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• According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.

  Jacques Ellul

  Development, Useless, Matter

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• There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Fifty, Hyphens

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• Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Believe, Years

  "Tony Blair: 'A new coalition for the environment'" by Tony Blair, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.

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• The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophical, Science, Numbers

  "The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill".

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• The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are not. It's clear from the Opinion Polls and my own experience, that indeed most people accept the notion that SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. The greater the education, the MORE likely to accept this proposition

  Stanton T. Friedman

  People, Earth, Opinion

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• While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Believe, Buddhism, Practice

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.12, Penguin

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• Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

  Fred Melamed

  Christmas, Boys, Years

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• Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

  Richard Chamberlain

  California, Actors, Culture

  "Richard Chamberlain Advises Other Gay Actors: Stay in the Closet" by Bryan Alexander, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 27, 2010.

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• In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

  Richard Hell

  Mind, Facts, Losing

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• Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Thinking, Men, Fifty

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• Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Might, Niche

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Satisfaction In Life

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.

  Max Horkheimer

  Judgment, Form, Synthetic

  "Critical Theory: Selected Essays" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 146), 1982.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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