“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
“We think this is a very expensive proposition. I can't even imagine how much a generator at a terminal station must cost.”
Keyna Cory
“No it can't! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.”
Monty Python
“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
“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
“The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.”
Galileo Galilei
“the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14.”
Sex and the City
