Propositions Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Rome, Victory, Triumph

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• The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Animal, Intellectual

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.

  Robert Spencer

  Community, Peaceful, Majority

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• There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Heart, Mystery, Problem

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• There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Theory, Controversy, Core

  "Opening Arguments Made in 'Intelligent Design' Court Case" by The Associated Press, www.livescience.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

  Tom Robbins

  Demand, Financial, Offensive

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.201, Bantam

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• The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Typical, Statistics

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.13, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Truth, Math, Degrees

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “A Treatise on Probability”, p.322, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

  Milton Friedman

  Voice, People, Ordinary

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• I will be glad to discuss this proposition with my attorney, and that after I talk with one, we could either discuss it with him or discuss it with my attorney, if the attorney thinks it is a wise thing to do, but at the present time I have nothing more to say to you.

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  Wise, Thinking, Attorney

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• Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Alternatives, Incapacity, Bigotry

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• The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he who would climb and live must continuously wage this battle and never let folly win. It's an outrageously demanding proposition. But I never said it was easy.

  Royal Robbins

  Winning, Rocks, Self

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• Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

  Arthur Cayley

  Space, Long, Geometry

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• One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

  Anish Kapoor

  Luxury, Doe, Aesthetic

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• Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Reason, Logical, Capacity

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.168, Oxford University Press

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• My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Heart, Cities

  Speech given to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio, Circa 1970.

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• The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Heterosexuality Is, Individual, Homosexuality

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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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• 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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• I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

  Bill W.

  Atheist, Mean, People

  Bill W. (1976). “Alcoholics Anonymous: the story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism”

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