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• Por otra parte, el partido conservador, compuesto por la parte más moderada, capaz y culta de la población, es tímido y se limita a defender la propiedad. No reivindica ningún derecho, no aspira a ningún bien real, no marca ningún crimen, no propone ninguna política generosa, no construye, ni escribe, ni aprecia las artes, ni fomenta la religión, ni establece escuelas, ni estimula la ciencia, ni emancipa al esclavo, ni se hace amigo del pobre, ni del indio, ni del inmigrante.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Ensayos, Segunda Serie "Política" (1844)

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• Good or bad I propose to be something great!

  Arthur Desmond

  "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.

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• 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

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

  Russell B. Long

  Fighting, Government, Ice

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• Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

  Pope John Paul II

  Disappointment, Attitude, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (1980). "Peregrinación de paz: discursos de Juan Pablo II en Irlanda y Estados Unidos", HarperCollins.

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• Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Holiday, Past, Arbor Day

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• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Self Esteem, Passion, Ideas

  James Harvey Robinson (2015). “The Mind in Making”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the long postwar history of the concept, takes honest account of the conservative critiques it has provoked, but proposes that it can serve as a robust norm for European Union citizenship. This is a profound meditation with real importance for contemporary political society.

  Charles S. Maier

  Real, Long, Profound

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• I'll propose anything where I can make a buck.

  Harold Ballard

  Bucks, I Can

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• The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Children, Community, Doe

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• As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

  Freeman Dyson

  Fate, Interesting, Hypothesis

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• 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

  Snow, Style, Environmental

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• 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

  Hydrogen Bomb, Political, Bombs

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• Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

  John Podhoretz

  Years, Inheritance, Delight

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• Cambiar la política de justicia penal de manera significativa significa proponerse cambiar un sistema muy antiguo. No es realista pensar que se puede hacer de la noche a la mañana.

  Kamala Harris

  Significado, Pensamiento, Justicia

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• We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Summer, Fighting, Ideas

  Mary Baker Eddy (1906). “Science Et Santé”

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• I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

  Enrique Jorge

  May, Conclusion, Shrinks

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Talking, Sea

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ejercicio, Hombres, Mente

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• Tenemos que soñar a lo grande, proponer medios grandoise si queremos recuperar la ilusión, la vitalidad y el orgullo de antaño.

  Coleman Young

  Sueño, Significado, Orgullo

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• Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the goddess of the sun and moon.""The tale gets stranger and stranger," Daniel said."Just wait until act seven," Miss Wynter told him."Seven?" His head snapped up. "There are seven acts?""Twelve," Harriet corrected, "but don't worry, you're in only eleven of them. Now then, Miss Wynter, when do you propose that we begin our rehearsals? And may we do so out of doors? There is a clearing by the gazebo that would be ideal.

  Julia Quinn

  Moon, Doors, Work Out

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• Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Men, He Man, Wooing

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.192

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• No proponemos sentarnos aquí en nuestra mecedora con las manos cruzadas y dejar que los comunistas establezcan cualquier gobierno en el hemisferio occidental.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Guerra, Gobierno, Manos

  Discurso pronunciado en la 10ª Conferencia Legislativa Nacional, Departamento de Oficios de la Construcción, AFL-CIO, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. 3 de mayo de 1965.

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• 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

  Years, Next, Evolution

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• 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

  Children, School, Focus

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