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«I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.»
Author: Bernard Ingham
| Keywords:
deduction, deductions, distortion, mow, mowed, mowing, mows, press down, Somme, supposition
«Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.»
«A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain»
«He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.»
«Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel.»
«Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, deductions, deny, distort, evidence, intentionally, justify, predilection, predilections, senses, systems
«The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, deduction, deductions, intuition, in operation, operations, rely
«No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.»
«The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
axiom, axioms, deduction, deductions, empirical, hypotheses, logical
«Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.»
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