Quotes with proper

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  • Bernard De Voto The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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  • Jonathan Swift The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The saddest fact of climate change - and the chief reason we should be concerned about finding a proper response - is that the countries it will hit hardest are already among the poorest and most long-suffering.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Billy Crudup The truth is I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act. I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell instead of putting it on our backs.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Caitlin Thomas There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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  • Bob Filner These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bill Frist This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • P. T. Barnum Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Oscar Wilde To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Pais To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Aleister Crowley To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Abraham Kaplan We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Oscar Wilde Well, there IS a good deal to be said for blushing, if one can do it at the proper moment.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Baltasar Gracian What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Leonard Cohen What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bob Barr When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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