Predicated Quotes
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What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?
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More Predicated Quotes
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
peter ustinov— As quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert Andrews, p. 742
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.
derrick jensen— p. 59 (The Culture of Make Believe (2003))
The word ontology comes from the Greek ontos for being and logos for word. It is a relatively new term in the long history of philosophy, introduced by the 19th century German philosophers to distinguish the study of being as such from the study of various kinds of beings in the natural sciences. The traditional term for the types of beings is Aristotle's word category, which he used for classifying anything that can be said or predicated about anything.
— John F. Sowa, "Building, Sharing and Merging Ontologies"
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document false to the name American.
calvin coolidge— Calvin Coolidge, Equal Rights (1920)
