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People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms. -- Donald A. Norman
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. -- Ulysses S. Grant
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate. -- Claudio Hummes
Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism. -- Karl Popper
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect. -- Anuj
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I? -- Dale Carnegie
What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing -- Hannah Arendt
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. -- Helmut Jahn
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. -- Thomas Jefferson
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers. -- Jean Vanier
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. -- Edward Gibbon
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world. -- Albert Camus
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form. -- Ayn Rand
I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life. -- Frances Fox Piven
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. -- Ayn Rand
The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read. -- Robert Fogel
I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. -- Bertrand Russell
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else. -- Abraham Lincoln
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation. -- William Faulkner
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. -- George Washington
I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from Washington without my express permission are the members of the Marine Corps Band. Those are the only forces I have. I want it announced that we propose to hold the White House against all odds at least for some time to come. -- John F. Kennedy
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. -- Alcuin
I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God. -- Eric Ludy
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works. -- Ulysses S. Grant
If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. -- Barbara Jordan
My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it. -- Emma Stone
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? -- Julio Cortazar
I'm surprised by the talent I find all over. There are always new chefs who propose many interesting new ideas, new ways of looking at ingredients. -- Alain Ducasse
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight. -- Kamala Harris
As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual liberty and freedom of choice. -- Richard Dawkins
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. -- Thomas S. Monson
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons. -- Diane Abbott
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. -- Winston Churchill
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out. -- Luigi Pirandello
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. -- Bob Riley
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy. -- Nassau William Senior
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. -- Roscoe Conkling
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 I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. -- Seneca
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. -- Richard Rorty
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. -- Alfred P. Sloan
We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. -- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of public transport. Cycling is almost completely free. There is no longer any need for the gym as you get fit by cycling. And you can go at your own pace. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating. -- Arthur Wimperis
If you're going to criticize, you should propose, -- Paul Ryan
I'll propose anything where I can make a buck. -- Harold Ballard
When I propose, angel, trust me, you'll know it. -- Sylvia Day
Wouldn't propose new taxes, but won't pledge against taxes. -- Mike Huckabee
Good or bad I propose to be something great! -- Arthur Desmond
To stop a battle, a politician would propose a war. -- Jarod Kintz
I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
I do not propose to be buried until I am dead. -- Daniel Webster
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose? -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did. -- E. W. Howe
If I propose, you'll know it. For one thing, I'll be hyperventilating. -- Richelle Mead
Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain. -- Andy Hargreaves
The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions. -- Donald Barthelme
You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex. -- Amy Dickinson
The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. -- Philip Wylie
If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again. -- Bette Davis
I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. -- Don Aitkin
Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example. -- Thomas Browne
The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own. -- John Milton
Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage. -- John Tesh
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women. -- Ti-Grace Atkinson
I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. -- Walter Cronkite
When you propose ridiculous things to believe, too many men will choose to believe nothing at all. -- Socrates
a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes -- Cole Porter
I had a dream about you last night... You tried to propose with a digital ceramic heater. -- Amy Summers
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing. -- Yves Behar
How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris -- Georgette Heyer
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth. -- Henrik Ibsen
You can't propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it. -- Tim Berners-Lee
To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy. -- Franz Grillparzer
I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union. -- Fredrik Bajer
I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. -- Russell B. Long
I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose. -- Peter Medawar
If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control. -- Paul Ryan
I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead. -- Henry George
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose. -- Johann Lamont
May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. -- Werner Herzog
I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature. -- Fennel Hudson
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I? -- Samuel Johnson
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." -- H. G. Wells
I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one. -- Kenneth Rogoff
I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. -- Sheryl Crow
If enough citizens believe their national security's in jeopardy then politicians who propose wars will receive the support they need. -- James Morcan
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
What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them. -- William A. Dembski
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. -- Milan Kundera
They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue? -- Carrie Harris
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister! -- Georgette Heyer
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world. -- Idi Amin
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions. -- Tony Campolo
I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race. -- Winston Churchill
Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals. -- Donald Trump
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
We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had. -- Coleman Young
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
Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. -- Theodore White
The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead this evolution. -- Azim Premji
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
In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero. -- Herman Cain
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep. -- Georgette Heyer
I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them. -- Barry Goldwater
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence. -- Tessa Dare
We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us! -- Israelmore Ayivor
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT. -- Imre Lakatos
There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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