#proposition

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#ago #american #american people #around #been

Love me like you'll never see me again. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#proposition #love

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#analyze #changing #changing the world #communism #deem

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#because #cannot #converts #experience #fluctuation

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

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#eating #go #hides #how #i

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#almost #any #anything #assent #get

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. ↗

— Herodotus

#before #best #bidding #certainly #choose

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. ↗

— George M. Cohan

#buried #call #curtain #funny #hurried