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#premise

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Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.


John Shadegg


#benefits #elderly #first #germany #i

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

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

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

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

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

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.


Stephen Jay Gould


#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.


Emeril Lagasse


#about #been #doing #even #generations






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