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Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands. -- Spurgeon
Nature will not be admired by proxy. -- Winston Churchill
Movies are a collective art. Art by proxy. -- Sylvester Stallone
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy. -- Robert Henri
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy. -- Raymond Chandler
We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior. -- John F. Kerry
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. -- Tom Chatfield
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy, -- Jill Tarter
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. -- Sean Parker
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. -- Nick Hornby
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. -- Wendell Berry
And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome. -- Eric S. Raymond
I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings. -- Michael E. Mann
I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale. -- Damon Lindelof
Part of the problem that we have currently in the Middle East is that[Bashar] Assad has hung on to power with the very strong support of Russia and Iran and with the proxy of Hezbollah being there basically fighting his battles. -- Hillary Clinton
There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people. -- Dee Dee Myers
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great. -- Natalie Zea
When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy. -- Carly Fiorina
I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home -- Khaled Hosseini
A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far. -- Sam Smith
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin. -- Russell M. Nelson
I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us. -- Simon Pegg
Media is Munchausen by proxy. -- Jennifer Sodini
Reading is seeing by proxy. -- Herbert Spencer
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. -- Simone de Beauvoir
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning. -- H.W. Brands
Russia ought to get Iran to back out of the proxy wars they are involved in. -- Michael T. Flynn
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy. -- Howard Schultz
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves. -- Herbert Spencer
if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. -- Charles J. Hitch
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. -- Robert Henri
NYC Marathon cancelled: runners are scrambling to find some other meaningless accomplishment to use as a proxy for control over their lives. -- Nils Parker
Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it. -- CrimethInc.
Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment. -- Hillary Clinton
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." -- Denise Duhamel
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy. -- Joanne Harris
I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy. -- Mitch McConnell
Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis. -- Barack Obama
Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers. -- Justin Bartha
The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims. -- Maureen Dowd
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During the civil war, the Sudanese government armed the Misseriya nomads as proxy. Even though both groups had coexisted quite well prior to the conflict, it all become much more difficult as a consequence. -- Rebecca Hamilton

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