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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. ↗

— Sitting Bull

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying 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. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding. ↗

— Robert Klein

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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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