#prop

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#classed #continent #convey #every #face

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#constituted #course #crime #great #like

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#condition #consideration #emigrate #fixed #found

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. ↗

— David Suzuki

#biological #chemical #geological #globe #left

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#places #proper #proper places #style #true

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#art #exercise #learned #medicine #only

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#considered #defending #disease #disordered #down

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#gives #meaning #natural #penetrate #proper

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate. ↗

— David Talbot

#appropriate #because #break #broken #even