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• It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ... Homo faber, Homo sapiens, I pay my respects to both, for they tend to merge.

  Henri Bergson

  Men, Essence, Definitions

  Henri Bergson (2012). “The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Holiday, Past, Arbor Day

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• If enough citizens believe their national security’s in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need.

  James Morcan

  War, Believe, Support

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• Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

  John Podhoretz

  Years, Inheritance, Delight

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• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  Kamala Harris

  Meaningful, Thinking, Justice

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• There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Errors, Rational

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• We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Government, Hands

  Remarks to the 10th National Legislative Conference, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 03, 1965.

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• Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Men, He Man, Wooing

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.192

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

  Julia Quinn

  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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• We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

  Coleman Young

  Dream, Mean, Pride

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Mind

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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Talking, Sea

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• I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

  Henry George

  May, Conclusion, Shrinks

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Summer, Fighting, Ideas

  Mary Baker Eddy (1906). “Science Et Santé”

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• Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

  Pope John Paul II

  Disappointment, Attitude, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

  Josh Duhamel

  Parent, Proud, Lasts

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• Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Doe, Addresses

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

  Roger Scruton

  Atheist, Doe

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Equality, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religion, Church, Lovers

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• When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Years, Europe, Firsts

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• The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

  Clarence Darrow

  Country, Jobs, Healing

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• They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Peaceful, Nuclear

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• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Names, Giving

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.1

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• I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.

  G. H. Hardy

  Apology, Science, Needs

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