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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ↗

— Alcuin

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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ↗

— Angela Carter

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. ↗

— Patrick Henry

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