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Letter "P" » proposal
«At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.»
Author: Arthur Gordon
| Keywords:
Aristotle, harsh, marked, passage, pillow, promptly, proposal, proposals, sarcastic, supporting, The Right Time, the right way, turbulent
«Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.»
Author: Dean Acheson
(Diplomat, Lawyer, Statesman)
| Keywords:
controversial, hallowed, hallows, proposal, proposals
«Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.»
«In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.»
Author: Edward P. Tryon
| About:
Questioning,
Universe
| Keywords:
from time to time, modest, Our universe, proposal, proposals, The Question
«One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal.»
Author: Jean Harlow
(Actress)
| Keywords:
cookie, cookies, darn, darned, frightened, germs, offered, proposal, proposals, underestimate
«I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.»
Author: Stephen Fry
| Keywords:
dictated, fax, faxed, faxes, knee, proposal, proposals, secretary, traditionalist, Traditionalists
«Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
bordering, equanimity, exhibition, International, proposal, proposals, San
«Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bureaucracy, dispose, disposes, dispose of, dumped, dumping, proposal, proposals, proposes
«Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
analytic, as it were, doctrines, effects, helped, historical, invalidate, invalidated, invalidating, on the contrary, operation, Precepts, proposal, proposals, put forward, relic, relics, religious doctrine, replacing, repression, residues, teachings, treatment
«Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.»
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