#premise

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself. ↗

— Walter Lang

#come #essential #everything #evolution #into

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. ↗

— Steve Israel

#finance #functions #generation #help #into

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#behind #central #enough #fight #given

The media's job is to question a premise. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#media #premise #question

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Tim Bray

#based #costs #culture #decades #defensive

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#funny #laugh #people #premise #simple

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. ↗

— David Horowitz

#based #because #could #economy #false

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

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

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