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Man proposes, and God disposes. ↗

— Ludovico Ariosto

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This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability. ↗

— Ehud Barak

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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

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Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. ↗

— Julius Sterling Morton

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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

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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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