“No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.”
Monty Python
“Better graphics alone is no longer a compelling proposition for buying a new game console. If we keep producing sequels to existing franchises, we are grazing the same field.”
Jamil Moledina
“It's a no-lose proposition.”
Todd Chanko
“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
“When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.”
Mark Twain
“Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the propositionthat each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.”
Charles Lindbergh
“That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.”
James Feibleman