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Letter "P" » propose
«Propose to any Englishman any principle or instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it.»
Author: Charles Babbage
(Inventor, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
admirable, defect, directed, Englishman, impossibility, propose
«We need to dream big dreams, propose grandiose means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.»
Author: Coleman Young
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
excitement, grandiose, propose, recapture, recaptured, vibrancy
«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.»
«Whoever loves, if he do not propose the right true end of love, he's one that goes to sea for nothing but to make him sick»
«The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
exercised, Masters, Passion play, propose, public good, subordination, wantonly
«The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are / 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
facility, possessors, propose, statesman, The three
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