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«Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages»
Author: Rose F. Kennedy
(Author)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
fifty-fifty, fifty, percentages, proposition, proving
«History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.»
«Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| Keywords:
attempted, detection, fifth, love story, proposition, romanticism, tinge, tinged, unemotional
«Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
ago, brought, conceived, Continent, dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, forth, Our Father, proposition, score, seven, Seven Years, The New Year
«Fourscore 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»
«It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no reason whatsoever for supposing it to be true»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
most undesirable, proposition, Supposing, undesirable, whatsoever
«HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracies, extremely, group, one-person, proposition
«Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighbor are nothing (3) That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith (4) That reason in religion»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
Calvinism, incomprehensible, proposition
«But who does not see that in a disbelieved or doubted or interrogative or conditional proposition, the ideas are combined in the same identical way in which they are in a proposition which is solidly believed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
combined, conditional, disbelieved, doubted, identical, interrogative, proposition, solidly
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