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#premises

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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

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

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

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






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