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Man proposes, woman forecloses. -- Minna Antrim
Man proposes, but God disposes. -- Thomas a Kempis
Man proposes, and God disposes. -- Ludovico Ariosto
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. -- Robert Kennedy
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. -- Ariel Durant
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing. -- Jean Rostand
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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. -- Angela Carter
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. -- Helmut Jahn
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. -- Julius Sterling Morton
When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights. -- Louis Bacon
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. -- Grover Cleveland
I think that person who actually proposes things, who will save Medicare, will be in a lot stronger position than someone who demagogues the issue. -- Tom Latham
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
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. -- William Howard Taft
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic. -- Ann Voskamp
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -- Albert Schweitzer
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
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Santayana
In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare. -- J. B. Priestley
We believe you will not have to pay more than the current rate structure proposes - which is, for 50 percent of the public, nothing; for another 25 percent, only a 10 percent increase; and for the remaining 25 percent, a 34 percent increase. -- Gray Davis
Man proposes, God disposes. -- Plautus
Music proposes. Sound disposes. -- Babette Deutsch
Prose proposes, verse reverses. -- Richard Howard
Heredity proposes and development disposes. -- Peter Medawar
In life, man proposes, God disposes. -- Aldous Huxley
Man proposes, but God blocks the game. -- Mark Twain
Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies. -- Sherry Turkle
Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man proposes, but God disposes. [Lat., Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.] -- Thomas a Kempis
He who proposes to be an author should first be a student. -- John Dryden
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved. -- Pope John Paul II
Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else. -- Robert Hass
Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much. -- Susan Sontag
Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement -- Stephen Jay Gould
Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment. -- Paul Kurtz
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 reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim. -- Edward Gibbon
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
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Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line. -- Ruben Aguilar
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that work. -- Hollis Frampton
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
An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money. -- John Maynard Keynes
What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge. -- Jean Piaget
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
Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved. -- Roger Scruton
May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen. -- Anne Royall
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead. -- Charles August Lindbergh
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

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