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Letter "P" » propositions
«Voters are starting to get together to keep Wal-Marts out of their town so that their economies don't get wrecked. The local elections are where you handle rent control, living wages and medical marijuana laws. Few people vote in local elections, but if more people like us vote, we have a far better chance at getting cool people and cool propositions passed. If you don't show up, you can bet your sweet ass that the Bush gang and the Christian coalition will.»
Author: Jello Biafra
| Keywords:
economies, elections, gangs, marts, propositions, rends, rented, rents, voters
«The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
propositions, regard to, with regard to
«If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophy, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13»
«Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
accompanied, cant, canted, canting, cants, catch phrase, coats, conceit, genuine, phrases, profitable, propositions, The Cant, varnish, varnished, waterproof
«People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians -- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.»
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
(Author)
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guerilla, Ideologies, massive, murdered, naive, propositions, stated
«It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.»
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
adding, proposition, propositions
«To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
connect, distant, prerogative, prerogatives, proceed, propositions, regular
«Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
dogmatic, propositions, shaggy, statements, utterances
«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.»
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