#proposition

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. ↗

— Herodotus

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The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding. ↗

— Robert Klein

#center #funding #highest #highest quality #model

The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification. ↗

— Moritz Schlick

#meaning of #method #proposition #verification

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. ↗

— George M. Cohan

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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#britain #doctrine #free #free society #guide

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics. ↗

— Henry Adams

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