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• The proposal for a new global reserve currency - or Special Drawing Rights - is a good idea for many reasons. Yes, for the Chinese it would cushion any fall in the value of the dollar per se because it would only be part of a basket of other currencies, including the yen and the euro.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Fall, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think an amnesty program... which is what the president (George W. Bush) has proposed... those are reasonable proposals.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, President, Amnesty

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• The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.

  Michelle Malkin

  Benefits, Care, Unions

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• Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

  Dick Morris

  Moving, Growth, Needs

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• ACORN, you may recall, is the left-wing activist group with longtime ties to community organizer-turned-President Barack Obama. The nonprofit, which now takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers after four decades on the public teat, has a history of engaging in voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, partisan bullying and pro-illegal immigration lobbying. The Democrats' stimulus proposals could make the group - and its lesser known but even more radical ideological allies - eligible for upward of $5 billion in new public cash.

  Michelle Malkin

  Bullying, Wings, Ties

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• When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

  Preston Manning

  Decision, Leader, Political

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• One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals.

  David Limbaugh

  Might, Causes, Fairness

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• Would-be income guarantors ignore or despise the capitalistic system that makes their dreams dreamable and gives their redistribute-the-income proposals whatever plausibility they have.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Dream, Giving, Would Be

  Henry Hazlitt (1983). “Man vs. the welfare state”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Stupidity, Lust

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• Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sorry, Dying, Rest Of Your Life

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• I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Essence, Romance

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.250, Penguin

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• The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'

  Elizabeth Warren

  Senior, Cutting, Numbers

  "Elizabeth Warren ‘Shocked’ At White House Plan To Cut Social Security With Chained CPI" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could, every thought of unbelief would be atheism if allowed to develop. Every rise of lust, if it has its way reaches the height of villainy; it is like the grave that is never satisfied. The deceitfulness of sin is seen in that it is modest in its first proposals but when it prevails it hardens men’s hearts, and brings them to ruin.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, Lust

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• He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving Up, Paris, Dating

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  August, Bidding, Afternoon

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• Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason. Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Teaching, Law

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• I appreciate the good work that senators in both parties have put into trying to fix our broken immigration system. There are some good elements in this proposal, especially increasing the resources and manpower to secure our border and also improving and streamlining legal immigration. However, I have deep concerns with the proposed path to citizenship. To allow those who came here illegally to be placed on such a path is both inconsistent with rule of law and profoundly unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited years, if not decades, to come to America legally.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Years, Law

  FaceBook post by Senator Ted Cruz from Jan 28, 2013

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• When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Games, People

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.

  James Fenton

  Real, Writing, Order

  "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.

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• I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

  Teri Garr

  Asking, Thanks, Reason

  "Multiple Sclerosis". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. June 2, 2004.

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• Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren’t required to do so.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Years, Cities, San Francisco

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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• The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

  Al Gore

  Powerful, Special, Reform

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• My brands all are unique in terms of their spirits, but they have the same Armani stamp. There is a level of taste which runs through every single product. Sitting side by side, they are perhaps more stimulating than they would be just on their own. It gives a new idea, a new proposal, a new perspective.

  Giorgio Armani

  Running, Unique, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

  Bill Ayers

  Government, Years, Pentagon

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• I genuinely believe if we get the chance to do something in Sydney, the people of Australia will win out of that proposal. There will be jobs, taxes, tourism - there'll be more people coming to Australia looking to spend money and I think that is a good thing.

  James Packer

  Jobs, Believe, Winning

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