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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

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

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


Erich Fromm


#capacity #creation #premise #puzzled #science

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.


Andrea Dworkin


#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined

We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.


Markus Wolf


#bugs #care #former #i #interested

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.


Marina Sirtis


#basically #episodes #ever #first #generation

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.


Morris Raphael Cohen


#arrive #concern #conclusions #exposition #follow






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