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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler / Author
Art
Life
Wisdom
Drawing
Insufficient
Premises
Sufficient
Conclusions
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All proofs rest on premises.
Aristotle / Philosopher
Premises
Proof
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The media's job is to question a premise.
Joey Skaggs /
Jobs
Media
Premises
Premise
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Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.
William Wegman / Artist
Invert
Premises
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Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
George Soros / Business Magnate
Investing
Premises
Trends
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
Leo Strauss / Philosopher
Bible
Fundamentals
God Is There
Premises
Fundamental
Premise
Therefore
Unknowable
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
Pearl S. Buck / Writer
Fatalism
Fate
Premises
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I've tried to write about Heathrow before and been escorted off the premises.
Alain De Botton / Writer
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Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
Alfred North Whitehead / Mathematician
Premises
Reasoning
Straws
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One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.
Bill Keller / Journalist
Challenges
Discipline
Important
Journalism
Premises
Disciplines
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School lunch should be made fresh on the premises every day. Our children deserve that respect.
Laurie David / Activist
Lunch
Premises
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Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.
Al Swearengen / Pimp
Affront
Bloodletting
Premises
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The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
Eric Metaxas / Author
Absurdity
Conclusion
Logical
Premises
Relativism
Worldview
Own
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All political debates, from tax policy to abortion, draw on moral arguments that rest on religious premises.
Michael J. Knowles /
Abortion
Premises
Debates
Tax Policy
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
Harland Williams / Actor
Premises
Twitching
Onstage
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Conclusion
Genius
Premises
Soul
Unknown
Conclusions
Discern
Draw
Learned
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The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
Jonah Goldberg / Author
Book
Ideological
Perspective
Premises
Extent
Premise
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich Nietzsche / Philologist
Conclusion
Premises
Railway
Telegraph
Dared
Draw
Press
Whose
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Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.
Rumi / Poet
Hints
Premises
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Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.
Stephen J. Dubner / Journalist
Feedback
Freak
Premises
Pretend
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Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand / Novelist
Contradiction
Premises
Will
Them
Check
Find
Exist
Wrong
Facing
Will Your Find
Whenever
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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Poet
Conclusion
Premises
Sophistry
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I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Invasion
Premises
Unjust
False
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I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.
Gary Johnson / Former Governor Of New Mexico
Premises
Admit
Change Me Know
Be The First
Conclusions
Faulty
First One
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It's one of my basic premises for tournament play: Choose to bet the lesser amount when a smaller-sized bet will accomplish the same objective as a bigger one.
Daniel Negreanu / Professional Poker Player
Accomplish
Premises
Bet
Lesser
Objective
Tournament
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We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.
Chris Pavone / Writer
Employment
Premises
Verify
Forced
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We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years, but I don't care anymore now.
Markus Wolf / Secret Intelligence Service Officer
Bugs
Don't Care
Former
Premises
Anymore
Unfortunately
Planted
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Ivanka was relentless and was determined to be the First Daughter Lady and to usurp office space out from under Melania; she wanted to be the only visible female Trump on the premises.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff /
Determined
Premises
Relentless
Visible
Be The First
Lady
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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
David Horowitz / Writer
Society
Economy
Gross
Ignorance
Practice
Premises
Psychology
Socialism
Based
Could
Human
False
Worked
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What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
Russell Baker / Writer
Home
Closets
Cockroaches
Couple
Premises
Tree
Calls
New Yorker
Trees
Yorker
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I'm a bitter-ender. It's potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to remove me from the premises.
Sarah Jessica Parker / Actress
Premises
Remove
Work Me Rest
Fatal
Flaw
Potentially
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Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.
Gauri Khan / Film Producer
Architecture
Exquisite
Historical
Inspiration
Premises
Commercial
Monuments
Personally
Sources
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One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.
Vincent Mcnabb /
Conclusion
Irrational
Objections
Premises
Contain
Inasmuch
Offends
Valid
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But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward / Former Governor Of New York
Men
Assuming
Equal
Fall
Law
Nations
Premises
Property
Wit
Falls
Ground
Owner
Slaves
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When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
Richard Lewis / Comedian
Albums
Premises
Fairly
Lots
Younger
Bruce
Carlin
Greats
Lenny
Listened
Pryor
Winters
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
Ravi Zacharias / Author
Best
Aphorism
Different
Premises
All Religions
True
Same
Correct
Simply
Religions
Say
Fundamentally
Popular
Premise
Similar
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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
Andrea Dworkin / Writer
Power
Men
Consequence
Credible
Defined
Implicit
Names
Parameters
Premises
Radical
Male
Authentic
However
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Subject
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The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
Morris Raphael Cohen / Philosopher
Adopted
Concern
Inquiry
Logical
Method
Philosopher
Premises
Arrive
Exposition
Leads
Suppose
No Interest
Philosophers
Primary
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You come to my studio, it says 'No photography on premises.' I picked that up from Kanye. We don't need all that. In the old days in the Wu, we didn't allow anybody in the studio, not even women. We didn't start allowing women until five years after our debut. ODB used to get mad.
Rza / Music Producer
Five
Mad
Old Days
Photography
Premises
Used
Years
After
Allow
Anybody
Days
Old
Picked
Studio
Says
Start
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In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.
John Lanchester / Journalist
Pizza
Premises
Restaurants
Work Money World
Eaten
Overlap
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In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
Benjamin N. Cardozo /
Astronomy
Generations
Physics
Premises
Verification
Branch
Deduction
Demonstrations
Judges
Repeat
Successive
Tend
Truths
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The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Former National Security Advisor
Premises
Sentiments
Appealed
Basis
Bush
Extremely
False
First One
Interests
Region
Skill
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