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«Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.»
Author: Edward Finlason | About: Action | Keywords: damage, Germans, propose
«Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | About: Reading | Keywords: aid, propose, studies
«Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.»
«Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream»
«No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.»
«I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant (President) | About: Pride | Keywords: propose
«Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.»
«It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose»
«I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.»
«As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . .»