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• The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living". Book edited by John Little, pp. 15 - 16, 2000.

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• I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track. We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.

  Jack Layton

  Government, Track, Support

  Speech after victory in elections, May 02, 2011.

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• The above proposition is occasionally useful.

  Bertrand Russell

  On the proof that 1+1=2. "Principia Mathematica". Book by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, 1st edition, p. 86, 1912.

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• On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Hands, Musical, Matter

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• I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

  Grandma Moses

  Business, Years, Painting

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• The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Learning, Science

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.237

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• When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Topics, Debate, Hypothesis

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• No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.

  William J. Brennan

  Believe, Writing, Judging

  "In Defense of Dissents, 37 Hastings L. J. 427, 428". 1985-1986.

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• In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Way, Creation, Involved

  Phillip E. Johnson (2000). “Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law and Culture”, Intervarsity Press

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• To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work to do, to try to understand why they behave like they behave, to relate entirely and understand them and to be completely emotionally connected. That is much more fun 99 percent of the time.

  Rebecca Hall

  Fun, Character, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Heart, Ideas, Enlightenment

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist: A Quarterly Magazine 5 (2), pp. 268-273, 1895.

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• Branding adds spirit and a soul to what would otherwise be a robotic, automated, generic price-value proposition. If branding is ultimately about the creation of human meaning, it follows logically that it is the humans who must ultimately provide it.

  David A. Aaker

  Soul, Add, Spirit

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• Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

  Bob Dylan

  Enemy, Politics, Masters

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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• Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.

  Galileo Galilei

  Running, Moving, Science

  Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

  Glenn Frey

  Order, Law, Smugglers

  Song: Smuggler's Blues

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• As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Husband, Real, Reading

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• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  Maggie Grace

  Ice, Tennis, Skating

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• Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

  Juan Cole

  Country, Tricky

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• Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

  Tim Bishop

  Winning, Spending, Transportation

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• Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.

  Thomas Young

  Science, Two, Differences

  Thomas Young, George Peacock, John Leitch (1855). “Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs”, p.157

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Brother, Science, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Atoms, Ease

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

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• Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Ontology, Logic, Mathematics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term "scientific truth." So different is the meaning of the word "truth" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. "Religious truth" conveys nothing clear to me at all.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Different

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.17, Open Road Media

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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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