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I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.
— Russell B. Long
Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
— Billie Jean King
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
You cannot obtain more truth for a fixed proposition by arguing it. To improve our beliefs, we must necessarily change our beliefs.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
Keeping big secrets, particularly secrets about things of one's own doing, is a tough proposition for even very bright people.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Your customers are the judge, jury, and executioner of your value proposition. They will be merciless if you don't find fit!
— Alexander Osterwalder
It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.
— Puggy Pearson
Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.
— Angela Carter
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in ...
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)
— Neil Postman
The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.
— Ilana Mercer
Okay," he said, leaning closer to me. "I have a proposition for you." Dear God, let it be marriage, I thought.
— Emery Lord
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
— Sitting Bull
That is, life is not an either/or proposition. When asked if you want this or that, the best answer is "yes".
— Janet Graham
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
— Itzhak Perlman
Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.
— Alfred Korzybski
It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.
— Glenn Frey
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
— Muhammad Yunus
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
— Stieg Larsson
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
— Kamala Harris
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
— Laurence J. Peter
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
— E.L. Doctorow
There is no such thing as an isolated proposition. For what I call a "proposition" is a position in the game of language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
— Gary Kovacs
To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.
— Sri Aurobindo
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
— Agatha Christie
Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause (Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium).
— Baruch Spinoza
Taleb's hero, on the other hand, is Karl Popper, who said that you could not know with any certainty that a proposition was true;
— Malcolm Gladwell
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
— Gertrude Stein
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
— Bob Dylan
That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
— Aldous Huxley
You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.
— Keith Rabois
Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.
— Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
— William Whewell
Having a conscience now is a grief-soaked proposition
— Stephen Jenkinson
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
— Florynce Kennedy
I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.
— John Irving
It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
— Damian Woetzel
Of love. Yes, that was it: he thought I meant to proposition
— Rachel Hartman
If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.
— Bashar Al-Assad
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
— H. Allen Smith
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
— William Wilberforce
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
— Phillip E. Johnson
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
— Maggie Grace
To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
— Edmund Husserl
We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.
— Thomas Szasz
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
— Robert S. Kaplan
Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.
— Tim Bishop
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
— Aleister Crowley
Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.
— Bertrand Russell
It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.
— Christopher Hitchens
Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
— Erwin Griswold
Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.
— Gene Perret
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
— Thomas Perez
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
— Gary L. Francione
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
— Richard Hell
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.
— James Kern Feibleman
Once you attach your personality to a proposition, people start reacting to the personality and stop reacting to the proposition.
— Harvey MacKay
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.
— Kellie Elmore
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
— Kenneth R. Miller
The above proposition is occasionally useful.
— Bertrand Russell
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
— E. Stanley Jones
Love me like you'll never see me again.
— Alicia Keys
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The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
— Bob Dole
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
— Alfred North Whitehead
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.
— Pope Benedict XVI
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions
— Anatol Rapoport
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
— Alfred Kinsey
I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly ... And that goes for the opposition as well.
— Calvin Trillin
Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.
— Bryant McGill
The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.
— George F. Will
Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.
— Robert Breault
