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I got so many proposals and so many propositions, but I had to ignore all of them. I'm a very busy person. – Martha Stewart	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was voting day and I thought the only thing out here in California that I worry about, which affects people, is the propositions that were out there, and I didn't see any propositions that I really had Election Day or the other. And so Election Day was Election Day and I just couldn't get excited about Election Day. And I just wound up going to play golf and I said,' I'm not doing Election Day.'. – Caitlyn Jenner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. – John Adams	added by Normando 3 years ago
We need to do more, and Vizzy is a key part of our plan to double down on seltzers and come in with differentiated and consumer-relevant propositions. – Sofia Colucci	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The new digital bank licenses mark the next chapter in Singapore's banking liberalization journey, we welcome firms with innovative value propositions to apply for the digital bank licenses, even if they have not yet established a track record in banking. – Tharman Shanmugaratnam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We welcome firms with innovative value propositions to apply for the digital bank licenses, even if they have not yet established a track record in banking. – Tharman Shanmugaratnam	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we do go forward to Monday, and if on Monday one or more propositions get a majority backing in the House of Commons, then we will have to work with the government to get the government to implement them. There is nobody else other than the government to implement them. – Oliver Letwin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The strengths will come from innovation and from pushing growth because we believe there is a fantastic potential in a lot of countries where we could develop new propositions, then time will tell how the company will work. – Luis Cantarell	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
During the night there have been several propositions for a compromise.... I will make one more attempt this morning. – Juha Sipila	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it. – W. H. Auden	added by anonymous 10 years ago
[On completely popular government:] Its superiority in reference to present well-being rests upon two principles, of as universal truth and applicability as any general propositions which can be laid down respecting human affairs. The first is, that the rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disregarded, when the person interested is himself able, and habitually disposed, to stand up for them. The second is, that the general prosperity attains a greater height, and is more widely diffused, in proportion to the amount and variety of the personal energies enlisted in promoting it. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself. – Alfred Jules Ayer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I got so many proposals and so many propositions, but I had to ignore all of them. I'm a very busy person.

– Martha Stewart

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was voting day and I thought the only thing out here in California that I worry about, which affects people, is the propositions that were out there, and I didn't see any propositions that I really had Election Day or the other. And so Election Day was Election Day and I just couldn't get excited about Election Day. And I just wound up going to play golf and I said,' I'm not doing Election Day.'.

– Caitlyn Jenner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.

– John Adams

added by Normando
3 years ago

We need to do more, and Vizzy is a key part of our plan to double down on seltzers and come in with differentiated and consumer-relevant propositions.

– Sofia Colucci

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The new digital bank licenses mark the next chapter in Singapore's banking liberalization journey, we welcome firms with innovative value propositions to apply for the digital bank licenses, even if they have not yet established a track record in banking.

– Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We welcome firms with innovative value propositions to apply for the digital bank licenses, even if they have not yet established a track record in banking.

– Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we do go forward to Monday, and if on Monday one or more propositions get a majority backing in the House of Commons, then we will have to work with the government to get the government to implement them. There is nobody else other than the government to implement them.

– Oliver Letwin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The strengths will come from innovation and from pushing growth because we believe there is a fantastic potential in a lot of countries where we could develop new propositions, then time will tell how the company will work.

– Luis Cantarell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

During the night there have been several propositions for a compromise.... I will make one more attempt this morning.

– Juha Sipila

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.

– W. H. Auden

added by anonymous
10 years ago

[On completely popular government:] Its superiority in reference to present well-being rests upon two principles, of as universal truth and applicability as any general propositions which can be laid down respecting human affairs. The first is, that the rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disregarded, when the person interested is himself able, and habitually disposed, to stand up for them. The second is, that the general prosperity attains a greater height, and is more widely diffused, in proportion to the amount and variety of the personal energies enlisted in promoting it.

– John Stuart Mill

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

– Alfred Jules Ayer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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