#positions

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

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

If you start to catalog Hillary Clinton's positions between now and 2008, we're going to have a lot of conversations because there are a lot of places for her to go. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#between #catalog #clinton #conversations #go

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. ↗

— John Astin

#chant #exercises #get #i #into

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#change #clear-cut #get #i #positions

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#end #positions

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#extreme #moderate #ones #positions #succeeded

We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love. ↗

— Ashley Olsen

#game #just #love #mostly #playing

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#claim #could #did #empirical #empirical fact

That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#framework #group #interrelated #involve #logical