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• You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Feelings, Should

  "Cheapskate, turkey for the holidays". "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. December 29, 2012.

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• The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?

  Galileo Galilei

  Simple, Thinking, Doe

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• Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

  Urijah Faber

  Mma, Imagination, Decision

  Urijah Faber, Tim Keown (2012). “The Laws of the Ring”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Believe, Important

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• I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

  Helen Suzman

  Thinking, America, Impact

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• I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, Degenerates, Decline

  Winston Churchill's remarks as Home Secretary in a 1910 Departmental Paper (the original document is in the collection of Asquith's papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford); later quoted in Clive Ponting "Churchill", 1995.

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• There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Names, Organization, Decision

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Yield, Connections

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.203

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• If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

  Germaine Greer

  War, Grief, Differences

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

  John Stuart Mill

  Way, Would Be, Wells

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.133, 谷月社

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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  Fidel Castro

  Sacrifice, People, Victory

  "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.

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• The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Different, Treasure

  "Martin Heidegger at Eighty". "Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays". Book by Michael Murray, p. 294, 1978.

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• People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

  Donald A. Norman

  Technology, People, Study

  "Things That Make Us Smart". Book by Don Norman, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

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• So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

  William James

  War, Long, Might

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.308, Routledge

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• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Hands

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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• My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Light, Evil

  Henry George (2014). “A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy”, p.6, epubli

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• Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

  Gelett Burgess

  Victory, Suits, Triumph

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• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.

  Cole Porter

  Trying, Aces, Holes

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• There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give preference to artists over another group. Now, could there be an impressive envisioning process where developers would be asked to collaborate with urban designers? Maybe envision a large-scale development with local shops, dense housing, maybe a few towers, maybe a few mid-rise buildings, and art workshops in the mix? That would be great. I don't see a call for those proposals. But I think that it would not be outrageous to propose that kind of vision.

  Sharon Zukin

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He who proposes to be an author should first be a student.

  John Dryden

  Firsts, Students, Authorship

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• Music proposes. Sound disposes.

  Babette Deutsch

  Music, Musician, Sound

  Babette Deutsch (1969). “The collected poems”

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• No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

  Owen Feltham

  Friends, Men, Annoyed

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• It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.

  Mary Kingsley

  Book, World, Opinion

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.187, Routledge

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• Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Book, Literature, Pleasure

  'Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected' no. 3, in the 'London Magazine' January-July 1823. De Quincey adds that he is indebted for this distinction to 'many years' conversation with Mr Wordsworth'

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