#premise

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#applications #costs #flaw #fraud #fundamentally

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. ↗

— Dan Abrams

#away #because #dishonest #disturbance #does

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise. ↗

— Alan Autry

#educational #emanate #etc #factors #high

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ↗

— George P. Baker

#best #character #ending #enough #farce

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises. ↗

— Russell Baker

#calls #closets #cockroaches #couple #grow

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#beings #confirmation #contrary #equally #far

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #awful #built #did #done

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#built #family #gamble #hell #here

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal. ↗

— Brad Carson

#appeal #change #choosing #climate #climate change

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#capacity #creation #premise #puzzled #science