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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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• Education can not be conferred. Whether in school or out, learning is a do-it-yourself proposition.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Education, Teaching, School

  Wheeler McMillen (1964). “Possums, politicians and people”

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

  Itzhak Perlman

  Music Is, Preparing, Expensive

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• The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.

  Thomas Huxley

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.

  Tony Abbott

  Simple, Two, Australia

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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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• Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

  Winston Churchill

  Long, Unity, Painting

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.

  Jay Leno

  Running, Dad, Smart

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• The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  Wallace Stevens

  Writing, Fate, Race

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.356, Vintage

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• The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.

  Lin Yutang

  Men, Weekend, Order

  Lin Yutang (2013). “Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it.

  John Berger

  Reality, Finishing, Impossible

  John Berger (2014). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.158, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Print works! It works as a business proposition - our print readers [of the Mother Jones] not only provide revenue in the form of subs and ads, but they are a core part of our donor community; 10 percent give us a donation on top of their subscription; that's about the same rate as NPR gets from its listeners.

  Clara Jeffery

  Mother, Npr, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Movement, Conservative

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Science, Greek

  Alfred North Whitehead (1958). “An Introduction to Mathematics”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press, 1958 [c1948]

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• If you don't know, your labor unions and community organizations, there's somebody you can ask to guide you. A lot of people, especially in the Latino community, they have this big ballot and all these names and propositions on it, and they say 'Oh my God'. They don't know which of these to vote for, so they don't vote.

  Dolores Huerta

  Names, Organization, People

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Class, Differences, Latter

  "Truthmaking". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 7, 2012.

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• When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

  Devendra Banhart

  Texas, California, Voting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

  Elliott Sober

  Goal, Doctrine, Facts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When you default on a secured debt, the creditor takes the asset that backs up that debt. When you convert credit card debt to mortgage debt, you are securing that credit card debt with your home. That's a risky proposition.

  Jean Chatzky

  Home, Cards, Credit

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It felt to me like I was living my life in a way that didn't make mockery of my values. That's what I intended to do. So, that became a very radicalizing proposition for me.

  Bill Ayers

  Way, Living My Life, Mockery

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.

  Nigel Cooke

  Jobs, Ideas, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Support, Biology, Gender

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.

  Kathy Bates

  Running, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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