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• So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?

  Hilary Duff

  Sacrifice, People, Grandfather

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating.

  Richelle Mead

  Rubies, Succubus, Knows

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Succubus Dreams: Urban Fantasy”, p.113, Random House

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• If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Agreement, Giving, Decision

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• If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Ruins, Firsts

  "Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu" by Baron de Montesquieu, 1899.

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.

  Francois Hollande

  Years, Law, Constitution

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• i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.

  Maureen Johnson

  Crush, New York, Play

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “13 Little Blue Envelopes”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Moving, Unconditional Love, Surrender

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

  Jo Nesbo

  Jobs, Artist, People

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• So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

  Mitch Daniels

  Years, Income, Citizens

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• Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

  Julio Cortazar

  Eden, Paradise, Nostalgia

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.210, Everyman's Library

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• The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Government, Two, Three

  "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions".

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• For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

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• I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Giving, People

  Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.67, Baker Books

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• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  Barbara Jordan

  Promise, Politics, Produce

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: "I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people."

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Doubt, Doorways

  "The Lighthouse of the Lord" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. February 2001.

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• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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• If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control.

  Paul Ryan

  Reform, Debt, Budgets

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• Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.

  Jean Rostand

  Reality, Choices, Taste

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

  Richard Rorty

  Doe, World, Causes

  Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Warfare, Nuclear, Bombs

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• Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Animal, Work Out

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.

  Ehud Olmert

  Division, Jerusalem, Terrible

  "Former Israeli PM looks at Iran crisis". www.cnn.com. May 5, 2012.

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• Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Rebellious, Proposal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

  Alcuin

  Wise, Men, Stupid People

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