Juan Cole
Historian
"Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition."
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Propositions
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Young
Physicist
"Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosopher
"The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness.""
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"The above proposition is occasionally useful."
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"We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed."
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"This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming."
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"I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me."
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"Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition."
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