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“The Prophets, Evliyas and Sheikhs are spiritual 'gravity wells.' They become so 'heavy' because they carry Allah (the Awareness of the Entire Universe) within themselves. This is why these Holy Ones draw others toward them.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“The prophets inspired by the Holy Spirit wrote the Holy words.”
“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.”
“The Prophets never made mistakes. Conversely, the common people in the world make myriad mistakes. Generally, we hate a person for his terrible mistakes. But, we should also love him if he has made amazing contributions to the world!”
“The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.”
“The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.”
“The prophets should be the eyes of the people.”
“The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.”
Source: The Works of Lactantius
“The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking”
Source: The Secret Life Of The Novel
“The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...”
“The proponents of Harlem jive talk ... do not hope that courses in the lingo will ever be offered at Harvard or Columbia. Neither do they expect to learn that Mrs. Faunteen-Chauncey of the Mayfair Set addresses her English butler as 'stud hoss', and was called in reply, 'a sturdy old hen.' -- Original Handbook of Harlem Jive, 1944.”
Source: Dan Burley's Jive
“The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.”
“The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.”
“The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.”
Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures
“The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.”
“The proportion of Americans who read books for pleasure is now at its lowest level ever recorded. The American Time Use Survey--which studies a representative sample of 26,000 Americans--found that between 2004 and 2017, the proportion of men reading for pleasure had fallen by 40 percent, while for women, it was down by 29 percent. The opinion-poll company Gallup found that the proportion of Americans who never read a book in any given year tripled between 1978 and 2014. Some 57 percent of Americans now do not read a single book in a typical year. This has escalated to the point that by 2017, the average American spent seventeen minutes a day reading books and 5.4 hours on their phone.”
Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.”
“The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.”
“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.”
“The proportion of the brain occupied by the prefrontal cortex is larger in human than in any other species, reflecting our advanced ability to make long-term rational decisions. Unlike most regions of the brain, the prefrontal cortex continues to grow and develop well into the mid-twenties --and so do its cautionary functions.”
Source: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
“The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass.”
“The proposal for a new global reserve currency - or Special Drawing Rights - is a good idea for many reasons. Yes, for the Chinese it would cushion any fall in the value of the dollar per se because it would only be part of a basket of other currencies, including the yen and the euro.”
“The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.”
“The proposal to quit voting is basically revolutionary; it amounts to a shifting of power from one group to another, which is the essence of revolution. As soon as the nonvoting movement got up steam, the politicians would most assuredly start a counterrevolution. Measures to enforce voting would be instituted; fines would be imposed for violations, and prison sentences would be meted out to repeaters.”
“The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.”
“The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal, nor wholly national.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“The proposed liberal solution was always negotiation. Just as they believed in nuclear arms negotiations for their own sake, they believe in a "peace process" without regard to what its consequences might be....It was impossible for any peace plan to fail in their eyes, since lack of progress was nearly always interpreted as evidence that new talks were now "urgent".”
“The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.”
“The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.”
“The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application
“The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.”
“The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.”
“The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.”
“The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.”
Source: THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION
“The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.”
“The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.”
“The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”
Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality
“The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”
Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality
“The propositions that accompany most of the chapters . . . are not as snappy as I would prefer—but there’s a reason for their caution and caveats. On certain important points, the clamor of genuine scientific dispute has abated and we don’t have to argue about them anymore. But to meet that claim requires me to state the propositions precisely. I am prepared to defend all of them as “things we don’t have to argue about anymore”—but exactly as I worded them, not as others may paraphrase them.
Here they are:
1. Sex differences in personality are consistent worldwide and tend to widen in more gender-egalitarian cultures.
2. On average, females worldwide have advantages in verbal ability and social cognition while males have advantages in visuospatial abilities and the extremes of mathematical ability.
3. On average, women worldwide are more attracted to vocations centered on people and men to vocations centered on things.
4. Many sex differences in the brain are coordinate with sex differences in personality, abilities, and social behavior.
5. Human populations are genetically distinctive in ways that correspond to self-identified race and ethnicity.
6. Evolutionary selection pressure since humans left Africa has been extensive and mostly local.
7. Continental population differences in variants associated with personality, abilities, and social behavior are common.
8. The shared environment usually plays a minor role in explaining personality, abilities, and social behavior.
9. Class structure is importantly based on differences in abilities that have a substantial genetic component.
10. Outside interventions are inherently constrained in the effects they can have on personality, abilities, and social behavior.”
Source: Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
“The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.”
“The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“The proprietor of the grocery store on the corner was bidding a silent farewell to a tomato which even he, though a dauntless optimist, had been compelled to recognize as having outlived its utility.”
Source: A Damsel in Distress
“The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.”
Source: What is Property?
“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.”
“The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“The pros are the players who are currently on the winning side of the issue. They’re getting what they want and are not incented to negotiate. They don’t even have to be here, and yet, they’re here and appear willing to listen to the cons, right? Maybe. Maybe they’re just here to watch the cons squirm.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“The Prosaics, with predictable impatience, always cut off the metaphoricals as they speak.”