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• As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

  Naveen Jain

  Sports, Wise, Teamwork

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

  Aldous Huxley

  Equality, Men, Literature

  Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality"

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• To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

  Edmund Husserl

  Phenomenology, Consciousness, Pure

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

  David Hume

  Selfless, Sun, Tomorrow

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.19, VM eBooks

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• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Hate, Science, Men

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1943). “The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions”, p.444, Transaction Publishers

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• You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Agreement, Long

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• It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.

  Germaine Greer

  Ideas, Support, Intellectual

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• Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Facts, Merit

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• It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Two, Numbers, Impossible

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• An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

  Rachel Cusk

  Epidemics, Eating Disorder, Female

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• Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Attitude, Self, Support

  Morris Raphael Cohen (1993). “The Faith of a Liberal”, p.437, Transaction Publishers

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• Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

  George M. Cohan

  Worried, Buried, Curtain Call

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• Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

  Sitting Bull

  Father, Wish, Portions

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical proposition, while the other asserts that his existence is not demonstrable to the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Two, Existence, Mathematical

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.219, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

  Henry Adams

  Doctrine, Physics, Accepting

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.94, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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• Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

  John Lydon

  Common Sense, Disposition, Ill

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• An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

  Graham Chapman

  Argument, Contradiction, Connected

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• Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Banking, Reach Out

  "Create social business funds in each country and city". Interview with David Bornstein, www.thedailystar.net. April 19, 2013.

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• Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Contradiction, Tautology

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.15, Clube de Autores

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  Walt Whitman

  Change, Racist, Fool

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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• No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

  Steven Weber

  Art, Mean, Exercise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Friends, Truth

  Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

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• Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Air, Literature

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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