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• When I propose, angel, trust me, you’ll know it.

  Sylvia Day

  Angel, Trust Me, Knows

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.73, Penguin

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• Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

  Mark Twain

  God, Block, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

  James Mattis

  Sorry, Defense, Records

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The teachers of our law, and to propose
  What might improve my knowledge or their own.

  John Milton

  Teacher, Knowledge, Law

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.27

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• How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

  Harold Pinter

  Knowledge, Numbers, Ignorant

  Harold Pinter (1967). “The Homecoming”, p.52, Grove Press

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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 on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strength, People, Stronger

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

  Brother Lawrence

  Perfect, Worship, Eternity

  Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.13, Baker Books

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• With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

  Michael Faraday

  Hard Work, Jealous, Mean

  "The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: 1832-December 1840, Letters 525-1333".

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• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Anger, Suicidal

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

  Tim Ferriss

  Live Life, Passion, Circles

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• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

  E. W. Howe

  Love, Marriage, Husband

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• God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

  Samuel Johnson

  Atheist, Inspiration, Men

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• What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is death. The lie is death in [Albert] Camus. That's why in Camus' play The Misunderstood the son dies, killed by his sister and his mother, because he lied. He never told them who he was. They killed him because they didn't recognise him.

  Catherine Camus

  Mother, Lying, Humility

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.

  George Washington

  Country, Heart, People

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• The point at which the photograph ceases to function as a metaphor is the point at which it is free to propose an experiential model.

  Thomas Struth

  Metaphor, Photograph, Function

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• Should one be for or against pornography? I prefer to propose images of sexuality rather than to analyze the pros and the cons of pornography. Women are interested in erotics and sexuality, so I want to use my energy to propose images about that.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Use, Want, Energy

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• The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.

  Jean Monnet

  Men, Your Side, Waiting

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• What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Self, Names

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• The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

  Philip Wylie

  Trying, Liberty, Quality

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• Man proposes, woman forecloses.

  Minna Antrim

  Men, Seduction

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• The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Saint, Firsts, Ends

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• I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.

  Franz Oppenheimer

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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• Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

  Confucius

  Mother, Father, Names

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• Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Intimacy, Architect

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an avalanche, as instances of general forces, as not yet fully human because utterly conditioned by their circumstances. Where Turgenev saw men, Marx saw classes of men; where Turgenev saw people, Marx saw the People. These two ways of looking at the world persist into our own time and profoundly affect, for better or for worse, the solutions we propose to our social problems.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Character, Men, Class

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