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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

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#dared #draw #machine #premises #press

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.


Ambrose Bierce


#discern #draw #genius #having #just

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.


Samuel Butler


#art #conclusions #drawing #insufficient #premises

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

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.


Ayn Rand


#contradiction #contradictions #exist #facing #find

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.


Jimmy Carter


#i #i think #invasion #iraq #launched

I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.


Sarah Jessica Parker


#flaw #give #i #i can #i do

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.


William H. Seward


#assuming #cannot #equal #falls #ground

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






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