"A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions"

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Source : "Various meanings of 'theory'". American Political Science Review, 52.04, 1958.

Anatol Rapoport

#Definitions Quotes #Logical Quotes #Certain Quotes

“Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.”
“You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.”
“Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).”
“Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.”

Source : Quoted in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Elbert H. Gary (1925)
“Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.”
“The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.”
“Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”
“Perspective: use it or lose it.”

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