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• I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

  Helen Suzman

  Thinking, America, Impact

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• I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Believe, Important

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• Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

  Urijah Faber

  Mma, Imagination, Decision

  Urijah Faber, Tim Keown (2012). “The Laws of the Ring”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?

  Galileo Galilei

  Simple, Thinking, Doe

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• You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Feelings, Should

  "Cheapskate, turkey for the holidays". "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Taken, Too Much

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.169, Macmillan

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• The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Long, Secret

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.87

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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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• The theory I propose may therefore be called a theory of the Electromagnetic Field because it has to do with the space in the neighbourhood of the electric or magnetic bodies, and it may be called a Dynamical Theory, because it assumes that in the space there is matter in motion, by which the observed electromagnetic phenomena are produced.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Space, Body

  James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Vol. I”, p.527, Courier Corporation

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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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• If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

  Germaine Greer

  War, Grief, Differences

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.228, Random House

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

  John Stuart Mill

  Way, Would Be, Wells

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.133, 谷月社

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• The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But if it is a complementary or parallel plan, we will study that.

  Hamid-Reza Assefi

  Russia, Want, Study

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• Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Profound, Madrid, Intense

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• How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Party, Years, People

  Regarding Juan José Ibarretxe's plan to propose a referendum regarding whether to approve his plan to reform the aunomomy of the Basque Country, El Correo, (p. 23), April 9, 2005.

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• People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the world as I see it. It is not my job to transform it. I cannot transform it all by myself, and I wouldn't even know how to. I limit myself to saying what I believe the world to be.

  Jose Saramago

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.

  William A. Dembski

  Strategy

  "The Vise Strategy: Squeezing the Truth out of Darwinists" by William A. Dembski, uncommondescent.com. May 11, 2005.

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• This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.

  Cole Porter

  Trying, Aces, Holes

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• Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

  Gelett Burgess

  Victory, Suits, Triumph

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• My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.

  Henry George

  Philosophy, Light, Evil

  Henry George (2014). “A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy”, p.6, epubli

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• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Hands

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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• So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

  William James

  War, Long, Might

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.308, Routledge

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• People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

  Donald A. Norman

  Technology, People, Study

  "Things That Make Us Smart". Book by Don Norman, www.theguardian.com. 1993.

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• The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Different, Treasure

  "Martin Heidegger at Eighty". "Heidegger and Modern Philosophy: Critical Essays". Book by Michael Murray, p. 294, 1978.

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