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"God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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"The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge." »Stephen Nachmanovitch
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"I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge." »Seneca
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"We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves." »Prophet Joseph Smith
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"Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories." »Polybius
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"The proper function of man is to live - not to exist." »Jack London
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"The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding." »Oscar Wilde
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"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." »Plutarch
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"There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue." »Cicero
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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man." »Alexander Pope
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"When asked what was the proper time for supper If you are a rich man, whenever you please and if you are a poor man, whenever you can." »Diogenes the Cynic
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed." »Clifton Fadiman
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"[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can." »Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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"Muddy waters should never prevent proper navigation of the ship or the spirit.
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"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth." »Goethe
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Six
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"If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires." »William Hazlitt
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"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment." »Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
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"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments." »Isaac Asimov
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"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge." »Helen Hayes
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"Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother." »Ronald Reagan
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"Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest." »John Winthrop
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"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness." »Joseph Addison
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"I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right." »Jeremy Thorpe
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"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on." »Harry S Truman
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