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Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. - William Petty

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too. - Bayard Rustin

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies. - Emilio Estefan

We actually haven't had any repost of people saying that they have had any problems with FEMA; everyone has been successful. - Dana Conklin

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama. - Nelson Oduber

This action is preposterous, false and unfounded, and an insult to law enforcement. - Richard Blumenthal

They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. - Colin Firth

They have not even a speeding ticket in their backgrounds so to make them out as cold-blooded killers is preposterous. - Lee Baig