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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.' -- Parker Palmer
I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today. -- James Callaghan
Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her. -- Scott Baio
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. -- Georg Cantor
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. -- Walter Pater
If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing. -- Sparky Anderson
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake. -- Walter Pater
And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive. -- Roy Barnes
On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things. -- Patti Stanger
In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience. -- Roger Ebert
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan! -- Nancy Lublin
You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes. -- Prince William
Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer. -- Jan Schakowsky
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We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy. -- Jeffrey Sachs
What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve. -- Roy Barnes
Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror. -- John Ridley
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. -- Frederick W. Smith
I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems. -- Stewart Udall
President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip. -- Alveda King
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. -- James Henry Breasted
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive. -- David Graeber
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement? -- Scott Brown
When I was about 14 I remember thinking when it came to proposing to my future girlfriend, I'd make a CD with all her favourite songs and a message that said, 'Will you marry me?' Shows you what a romantic I was. No one listens to CDs any more. It's all about iTunes. -- Tinie Tempah
We pursued the wrong policies. George Bush is not on the ballot. Bill Clinton is not on the ballot. Mitt Romney is on the ballot, and Barack Obama is on the ballot. And Mitt Romney is proposing tax reform, regulatory reform, a wise budget strategy and trade. The president has proposed tax increases. -- Glenn Hubbard
Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains. -- Joe Biden
I pay for everything I'm proposing. -- Hillary Clinton
Democrats proposing failure in Iraq by withdrawing. -- John McCain
Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution. -- John F. Kerry
Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing. -- Jacque Fresco
Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her. -- Chris Rock
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable. -- Nick Matzke
I'm proposing a plan to provide school choice to every disadvantaged student in America. -- Donald Trump
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. -- Vernor Vinge
Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her -- Scott Baio
No, for God's sake, I'm not bloody suicidal. And I'm not proposing, either. Forget I said anything. -- Michael Grant
The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir. -- Terry Pratchett
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers. -- Margaret Thatcher
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves. -- John Tillotson
I never see these things coming. They happen too fast. One second you're proposing an escape plan and the next... -- Suzanne Collins
However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs.. -- Orrin Hatch
Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?" "Well I would if you'd let me finish," he grumbled. -- Maya Banks
We respect and support the example set by President JosÃ© Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market -- Otto Perez Molina
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business. -- Muhammad Yunus
We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing. -- Maxine Waters
What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work. -- Hillary Clinton
The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the world, not a threat -- Brian D. McLaren
What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare. -- Hillary Clinton
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. -- Carl Sagan
If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding. -- David Sedaris
I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process of radiation, the name photon. -- Gilbert N. Lewis
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally. -- Terence McKenna
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think? -- P. D. James
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. -- Calvin Coolidge
...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged. -- Aristotle
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist -- Winona LaDuke
The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States. -- Steve Inskeep
It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a 4.5 percent increase in tuition that's above inflation. -- James Rosapepe
I am proposing a new foreign policy focused on advancing America's core national interests - so important - promoting regional stability, and producing and easing the tensions within our very troubled world. -- Donald Trump
And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature. -- Terence McKenna
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic structures a more equitable and solidaristic configuration. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity. -- Oscar Wilde
President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton are proposing bringing tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to this country when the head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those refugees. -- Ted Cruz
I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs. -- Fernando Henrique Cardoso
We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted. -- Dalai Lama
I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly. -- Seth Godin
I'm proposing "¦ that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together. -- John Wilbanks

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