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• La premisa número uno de los negocios es que no tienen por qué ser aburridos o sosos. Tiene que ser divertido. Si no es divertido, estás desperdiciando tu vida.

  Tom Peters

  Fun, Business, Creativity

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• My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Needs, Found

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). "Fuego pálido"

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• Two students severely injured, you yourself covered in blood, a Reaper on the premises, a Fenrir wolf running around loose somewhere, and extensive property damage to the resort. Well?" Nickamedes snapped. "What do you have to say for yourself, Gwendolyn?" I thought for a second, then grinned at him. "I followed your directions exactly. I never set one foot outside the hotel.

  Jennifer Estep

  Running, Blood, Two

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Kiss of Frost”, p.266, Kensington Books

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• Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

  Josef Pieper

  Mad, Intuition, Unrest

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• The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Roots, Principles, Causes

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• La premisa básica de la religión -que si vives una buena vida, las cosas te irán bien- es errónea. Jesús fue la persona más recta moralmente que jamás haya existido, y sin embargo tuvo una vida llena de experiencias de pobreza, rechazo, injusticia e incluso tortura.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Good Life, Rejection

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.180, Penguin

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• There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

  Graham Swift

  Fall, Other Worlds, Doe

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• Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Good Life, Hate, Real

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.445, OUP Oxford

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• Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Real, Glasses, Doors

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). "El mundo según Clarkson

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• El idealismo, aunque justo en sus premisas, y a menudo audaz y honesto en su aplicación, está anquilosado por el intelectualismo exclusivo de sus propios métodos: por su confianza fatal en el trabajo de ardilla del cerebro laborioso en lugar de la visión penetrante del corazón deseoso. Interesa al hombre, pero no lo involucra en sus procesos: no lo atrapa en la vida nueva y más real que describe. De ahí que lo que importa, lo viviente, se le haya escapado de algún modo; y sus observaciones guardan la misma relación con la realidad que el arte del anatomista con el misterio del nacimiento.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Arte, Real, Hombres

  Evelyn Underhill (2017). "El místico cristiano completo: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God", p.112, Lulu Press, Inc.

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• The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

  Daniel Quinn

  Men, Stories, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.239, Bantam

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• Su mente se ha convertido en un refugio para viejos pensamientos, ociosos, indigentes, sin ningún otro lugar al que ir. Debería echarlos fuera, barrer el lugar. Pero no le importa hacerlo, o no le importa lo suficiente"(72).

  J. M. Coetzee

  Mind, Doe, Care

  J M Coetzee (2015). "Disgrace", p.72, Random House

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• Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Giving, Want

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 15, 2016

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• El idealismo no representa una expresión superflua de la emoción, sino que en verdad ha sido, es y será la premisa de lo que designamos como cultura humana...Sin su actitud idealista todo, incluso las facultades más deslumbrantes del intelecto, seguiría siendo mero intelecto como apariencia exterior sin valor interior, y nunca fuerza creadora....El idealismo más puro equivale inconscientemente al conocimiento más profundo.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Expression, Creative

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• Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Way, Life Is, Questioning

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.

  Erwin McManus

  Buddhism, Focus, Islam

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• Lógica, s. Arte de pensar y razonar en estricta conformidad con las limitaciones e incapacidades del entendimiento humano. La base de la lógica es el silogismo, que consta de una premisa mayor, una menor y una conclusión: Premisa mayor: Sesenta hombres pueden hacer un trabajo sesenta veces más rápido que un solo hombre. Premisa menor: Un hombre puede cavar un agujero en sesenta segundos; Por lo tanto- Conclusión: Sesenta hombres pueden cavar un hoyo en un segundo. Esto puede llamarse silogismo aritmético, en el que, combinando la lógica y las matemáticas, obtenemos una doble certeza y somos doblemente bendecidos.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Arte, Beato, Ciencia

  "The Devil's Dictionary:". Book by Ambrose Bierce (p. 204), 2008.

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• Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

  Haruki Murakami

  Goes On, Assumption, Humans

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• My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.

  Carl Sagan

  Anatomy And Physiology, Brain, Mind

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Beer, House

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

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• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Paz, guerra, lucha

  Estados Unidos. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Estados Unidos. Presidente (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan, Estados Unidos. Oficina del Registro Federal (1982). "Ronald Reagan"

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• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Movement

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• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority... it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed - some divine work, well I don't accept the premise.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Men, Laughing

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• The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Powerful, Hard Work

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• How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Party, Drunk, Lines

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