#proposition

It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. ↗

— Maimonides

#all things #assist #essence #established #every

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#both #christmas #costly #deal #enjoy

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#college #friends #going #got #i

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#based #becomes #custodian #customs #each

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#ago #american #american people #around #been

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#affording #any #errors #except #general

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit. ↗

— William H. Seward

#classification #conceit #course #equilibrium #established

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. ↗

— Dean Smith

#death #every #game #going #life

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. ↗

— H. Allen Smith

#created #dedicated #i #i am #jerks

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. ↗

— George Soros

#ago #already #ballot #being #could