Deductively Valid Quotes

#1. to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.

Graham Priest

#2. I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.

John Cleese

#3. I experience God as the power of love.

John Shelby Spong

#4. There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#5. There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

Edna O'Brien

#6. We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.

Alan Thicke