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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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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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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes. ↗

— John Hawley

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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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The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. ↗

— James Monroe

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Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

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The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

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Liars are always most disposed to swear. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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