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• The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

  Donald Barthelme

  Tasks, Problem, Solve

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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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• It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Kids, Community, World

  "Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid". Interview with Kevin Poulsen, www.wired.com. November 17, 2005.

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• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, War, Lying

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• As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.

  Brahmagupta

  Stars, Men, People

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• If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.

  Arthur Saxon

  Real, Men, Practice

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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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• If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, Teaching, Knowing

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• Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Age, Nine, Limits

  Lolita pt. 1, ch. 5 (1955)

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• Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the public good, we must be prepared to assert a far more important role for the library. We must clearly define what we do and establish and assert the relationship of libraries to basic democratic freedoms, to the fundamental humanistic principles that are central to our very way of life. . . .

  Arthur Curley

  Organization, Political, Democracy

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• An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.

  Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

  Mean, Science, Animal

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• I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Republican Government, Principles, Conformity

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.15, Penguin

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• I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Believe, Eugenics

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• The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.

  Leon Foucault

  Moving, Science, Paris

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• Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

  Terence McKenna

  Play, Needs, Exploration

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• I'm usually the first guy to propose a change because I'm continuing my process. We're in a context, in this business, a context in which most screenplays work on a very modest level of achievement, in that a lot of them aren't really written by what you would call writers.

  William Monahan

  Achievement, Guy, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria.

  Rachel Maddow

  Years, Age, May

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• Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, Men, Law

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Man proposes, but God disposes.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Religious, Men

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 19, sect. 2

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• In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

  Angela Carter

  Relationship, Women, Schemas

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.

  Nick Symmonds

  Military, Hunting, Animal

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• I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

  Sheryl Crow

  Squares, Sitting, Paper

  "Singer's toilet paper musings leave Rove untouched" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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• I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Simple, Political

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• In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps them simplify the apparent complexities of the world so they can ignore the meaningless differences and draw connections between the things that really seem to matter. Third, based on the classification system, they propose a theory. The theory is a statement of what causes what and why, and under what circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Differences, Connections, World

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Teacher, Employment, Pay

  "Teachers Unions Blast Governor's Merit Pay Plan" by Cara Mia DiMassa and Joel Rubin, articles.latimes.com. January 10, 2005.

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