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Letter "P" » proposition
«The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be»
Author: Richard Cecil
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assumes, government of the United, government of the United States, proposition, reference to, with reference to
«The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.»
«There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting»
«The basis of my politics lies in the proposition that the Untouchables are not a sub-division or sub-section of Hindus, and that they are a separate and distinct element in the national life of India.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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distinct, division, Hindu, Hindus, proposition, section, sub, The Hindu, The National, The Untouchables, untouchable, untouchables
«The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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proposition, The Deal, underwrite, underwrites, unquestioningly
«When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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discontinue, discontinued, farmer, jail, Mississippi, Mississippi River, old school, proposition, public schools, spoke, township
«You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.»
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