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• Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Half, Unjust, Abomination

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• Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Excellence, Execution, Strategy

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• Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid.

  Catharine Cox Miles

  Fun, Wall, Mean

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• In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within the solar system, or with any other portion of space and time. . . . This brings us to a second characteristic of philosophical propositions, namely that they must be a priori. A philosophical proposition must be such as can neither be proved nor disproved by empirical evidence. . . . Philosophy, if what has been said is correct, becomes indistinguishable from logic as that word has now come to be used.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Moving, Destiny

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• The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

  Ronald Knox

  Catholic, Mind, Unorthodox

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1913). “Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called "Foundations,"”

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• Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

  George Michael

  Political, Groups, Minorities

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• Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Acceptance, Earthquakes

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.1, Columbia University Press

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• One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

  Jim Palmer

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• In a society where rationality has ruled so long, the church frequently fails to see that in forsaking the weekly pursuit of the transcendent, we have given up the only ground that was uniquely ours in this world. In attempting to make the church something that can attract and add value to secular mind-sets, we have turned our backs on our one true proposition - transcendence.

  James MacDonald

  Long, Mind, Church

  James MacDonald (2012). “Vertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.”, p.34, David C Cook

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• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

  Sam Keen

  Strong, Men, Two

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• Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Character, Google, Age

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• Strategy is indeed about choosing what not to do as well as what to do. A business unit needs to decide what need it aims to satisfy in what group of people and with what value proposition that distinguishes the business from its competitors.

  Philip Kotler

  People, Needs, Groups

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. May 10, 2015.

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• I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it, particularly now. A picture's not the world, but a new thing.

  Tod Papageorge

  Photography, Believe, Fiction

  Interview with Alec Soth, alecsothblog.wordpress.com. July 12, 2007.

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• Specifically in reference to Iran, Donald Trump will not be able to renegotiate the nuclear arms pact. His attempt to do so will alienate all the European powers involved and will cost a number of US companies some very lucrative contracts. It is a losing proposition for him and for the US. Much more so than for Iran, who will turn more and more to Russia and China as trading partners.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Russia, Iran, Numbers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone up very nicely. But we have been producing students at a rapid rate; they're competing for funds and therefore they're more frustrated. I think there's a certain sense of weariness in the intellectual realm, it's not in any way peculiar to economics, it's a general proposition.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Growth, Frustrated

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.

  Barack Obama

  Simple, Long, Giving

  Source: genius.com

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• I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.

  George Carlin

  Break Even, Pot, Has Beens

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Writing, Bored

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• Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

  Warren Buffett

  Night, Differences, Emts

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• Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Soul, Good Man

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• Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

  Grace Napolitano

  Safety, Risk, Investment

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• Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.... The two propositions: "The earth turns round" and "it is more convenient to suppose the earth turns round" have the same meaning; there is nothing more in the one than in the other.

  Henri Poincare

  Moving, Math, Two

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• Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

  Robert Breault

  Goes On, Tire, Testing

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• Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

  Alberto Moravia

  Law, Custodians, Generations

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