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Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle. -- Thomas Huxley
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction. -- Joshua A. Tucker
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. -- Richard M. Nixon
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. -- A. R. Ammons
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. -- Rene Descartes
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. -- Paul Keating
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. -- Albert Einstein
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. -- John Sununu
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all. -- Robert Reich
Unlike every other retirement vehicle, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, you receive a tax deduction for making contributions to your HSA but don't have to pay income taxes on withdrawals. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future. -- Charles B. Rangel
There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole. -- Chuck Schumer
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. -- Li Ka-shing
All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data. -- Maurice Allais
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. -- Marcel Duchamp
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. -- Margery Allingham
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. -- Johann Georg Hamann
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. -- Max Lucado
Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom. -- Dee Dee Myers
Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction. -- Harold Ford, Jr.
We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd. -- Bernie Sanders
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. -- Auguste Comte
A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets. -- Malcolm Forbes
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. -- John Fowles
If your biggest tax deduction was bail money, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
As long as you're a tax deduction, you'll always be safe in my house. -- George Lopez
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form -- Laurence J. Peter
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. -- Francis Bacon
Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics. -- Anthony Standen
Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise. -- Terry Pratchett
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate. -- George Henry Lewes
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." -- Max Planck
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. -- Mark Twain
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer. -- John Locke
I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film! -- Hugh Jackman
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. -- Rene Descartes
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking. -- Hans Christian von Baeyer
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. -- Bernard Ingham
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions. -- John Chadwick
when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please. -- Charles Darwin
We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble. -- W. Brian Arthur
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape? -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history. -- Jack Kemp
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile. -- Nikola Tesla
Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply. -- Jim Butcher
The New Atheists are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically-fait h! -- Ravi Zacharias
Last year I had difficulty with my income tax. I tried to take my analyst off as a business deduction. The Government said it was entertainment. We compromised finally and made it a religious contribution. -- Woody Allen

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