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• We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations.

  Joseph Adam Ereli

  Views, Iran, Support

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• The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks.

  Ali Larijani

  Iran, Problem, Program

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• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

  Forrest Gander

  Reading, Character, Feelings

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• We need a big debate in society about how we are going to shape Europe and tame capitalism. A government must provide direction and make concrete proposals. It is one of Angela Merkel's biggest failings that she doesn't do this.

  Martin Schulz

  Debate, Failing, Concrete

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Debt, Complicated

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, Art Of War, Plot

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.25, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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• I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Oil, Too Much, Break

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• I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.

  Deb Fischer

  Jobs, Reform, Serious

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• Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

  David Graeber

  Hate, Thinking, Agreement

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• Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Invention, Projects

  "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project". www.w3.org. November 12, 1990.

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• Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

  Jim Nussle

  Government, People, Accountability

  "Arena Profile: Jim Nussle". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal.

  Grace Napolitano

  Average, Wind, Earning

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• Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Money, Numbers, Car

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• History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

  Jostein Gaarder

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Jobs, Book

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• I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere.

  Johann Heinrich Lambert

  Two, Triangles, Spheres

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• Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

  Jason Furman

  Discipline, People, Honest

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• To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  United States, World, Come Up

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• There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

  Dorothy Parker

  New York, Serious, Comic

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Meaningful, Agriculture, Years

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

  Maria Cantwell

  Oil, Car, Rejection

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• Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Years, Agriculture, Target

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• Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

  Anita Dunn

  Leader, Consistency, President

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