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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  Fidel Castro

  Sacrifice, People, Victory

  "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike". The New York Times, October 23, 1992.

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• I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

  Johann Lamont

  Promise, Cost

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• When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

  John Dewey

  Mean

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.25, 谷月社

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• I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

  Daniel Webster

  Buried

  "Palin’s “Role of the Vice President” Gaffe: An Historical Perspective" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Ions, Together

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1834)

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• The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Dog, Nice

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• [I'm planning]for starters, build a permanent border wall between the US and Mexico that Mexico "must pay for". The plan proposes various sticks to force Mexico to cooperate, such as impounding all remittance payments to Mexico from illegal wages earned in the US.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Mexico

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

  Hafez

  Mean, Two, Heaven

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• The capitalist system only allows us to heap up waste. I would like to propose that the trillions of money earmarked for war should be channeled to make good the damage to the environment, to make reparations to the earth.

  Evo Morales

  War, Environmental, Earth

  "Material World: Evo Morales - A Call for Socialism?". www.worldsocialism.org. June 2008.

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• The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

  Mike Lee

  Freedom, Talking, Data

  "Everything you need to know about the Patriot Act debate". edition.cnn.com. May 23, 2015.

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• For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

  Walter Cronkite

  Mind, Speak, Position

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of
  his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

  Herodotus

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Herodotus (2015). “The Histories Book 3: Thaleia”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Kind

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• Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Roots, People, Branches

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• Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.

  David Berman

  Retirement, Morning, Two

  David Berman (2011). “The Great Philosophers:Berkeley: Berkeley”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, Believe, Done

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• I remember George Mitchell - I was doing the Clarence Thomas hearing, and there were 48 senators declared they were not prepared to vote for him at the front end. We could have filibustered that and stopped it. George and I - George was the leader at the time - took the heat from every liberal group saying, "No, no, that's not the way the system is supposed to work, since the Constitution - the president shall propose and the Constitution shall dispose, we're going to let them hear this."

  Joe Biden

  Leader, President, Way

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable form of government or attempt to shape it. Islam has never offered nor established a theocracy in its name. Instead, Islam establishes fundamental principles that orient a government's general character.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Character, Government, Names

  Interview with David Kenner, foreignpolicy.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, Europe

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Thinking, Pressure

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

  Heber J. Grant

  Men, Architect, Feels

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• There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give preference to artists over another group. Now, could there be an impressive envisioning process where developers would be asked to collaborate with urban designers? Maybe envision a large-scale development with local shops, dense housing, maybe a few towers, maybe a few mid-rise buildings, and art workshops in the mix? That would be great. I don't see a call for those proposals. But I think that it would not be outrageous to propose that kind of vision.

  Sharon Zukin

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Challenges, Good Man

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• The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Political, Quality

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• It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, People, Interesting

  Source: feathertale.com

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