Virgil
Poet
"Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth."
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Proposal
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."
Homer
Poet
"I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God."
Paz Vega
Actress
"It's very difficult to decide. And I'm very open to proposals."
Ali Larijani
Politician
"The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified in future talks."
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"There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence."
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"Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText."
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"I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing."
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"My proposal happens to be very mainstream."
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"The Russian ambassador at the United Nations did make some proposals for a political settlement in which Bashar Assad would be slowly eased out. The West dismissed it immediately, and we don't know if it was real, because it didn't come from the Kremlin, and it was informal. But the point is every such proposal is immediately scotched. And you just don't know if they're real."
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"One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological."
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