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• For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1 enriches it a bit: "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God." So there are contextual constraints and when you finish putting in all the contextual constraints and sophisticated discussions of what inerrancy is and isn't.

  D. A. Carson

  Heart, Example, Doe

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.

  D. A. Carson

  Asking Questions, Scripture, Claims

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Essence, May

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Men, Democracy

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done.

  Collin Peterson

  Long, Trying, Done

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, "I think it could work." I said, "Will you help us?" He said, "Yes." So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Running, New York

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

  Boris Johnson

  Father, Europe, United States

  "The Telegraph EU Debate: Viewers award victory to Boris Johnson and Priti Patel in head-to-head with Alex Salmond and Liz Kendall". The Telegraph and Huffington Post EU Debate at the headquarters of YouTube in London, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 14, 2016.

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• Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

  Gene Perret

  Marriage, Wedding Anniversary, Space

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• We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Years, Progress

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2011.

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• [People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take care of that. They've seen eight percent of the bank deposits in the United States get moved very skillfully, I might say, within the last couple of weeks from institutions that they thought were fine a few months ago to other institutions. They are not wrong to be worried.

  Warren Buffett

  Couple, Eight, Government

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• In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.

  Gatewood Galbraith

  Wall, Party, Government

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• It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. This statement is almost a tautology. For the energy of operation of a proposition in an occasion of experience is its interest and is its importance. But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Interesting, Important

  'Adventures of Ideas' (1933) pt. 4, ch. 16

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• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Equality, Rights, Ideas

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• hen the price of carbon reaches $100 a tonne, then it will become an economically viable business proposition to start taking CO₂ out of the atmosphere and sequestering it underground.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Atmosphere, Environmental, Hens

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• For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly, to fit the people for social life - to make them good citizens. And who is to say what are good citizens? The government: there is no other judge. And who is to say how these good citizens may be made? The government: there is no other judge. Hence the proposition is convertible into this - a government ought to mold children into good citizens, using its own discretion in settling what a good citizen is and how the child may be molded into one.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Government, People

  "Social Statics: Great Essays".

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• Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Evil, Human Nature, Communism

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• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.

  John Aubrey

  Love, Truth, Years

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• Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Government, Scary, Ignorant

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Conditions

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Logic, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

  Milton Friedman

  States, Ifs

  Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman (1999). “Two Lucky People: Memoirs”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems, and have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat. But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.

  Adrien-Marie Legendre

  Regret, Numbers, Effort

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• The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.

  Francis Bacon

  Confused, Lying, Roots

  Francis Bacon (1858). “Works of Francis Bacon: 4”, p.49

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• It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Logic, Granted

  John Stuart Mill (1862). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.207

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