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«I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
America and Americans,
Politics
| Keywords:
Democrats, proposition, Republican, stop, telling
«On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.»
Author: H. Allen Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dedicated, dedicates, dedicating, jerked, jerks, Monday, Mondays, mornings, proposition
«That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.»
«Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat 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 to the future.»
Author: Charles Lindbergh
(Aviator)
| Keywords:
custodian, custodians, customs, inheritance, in turn, laws and customs, owner, proposition, The Absolute
«Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
evident, fit to, maxim, proposition, resolved
«That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
assent, assented, assenting, proposition, sane
«Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
dad, Dan, Dan Quayle, George, George W. Bush, George W, John McCain, mate, McCain, picked, proposition, Quayle, running mate, scary
«One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
entertaining, proofs, proposition, unerring, warrant, warranted, warrants
«I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
adding, proposition, propositions
«Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.»
Author: Wilson Mizner
| Keywords:
proposition
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