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“what the history establishment has done through the models it has proposed for both the ancient and the medieval periods is to exactly reverse the historical picture.”

N. S. Rajaram (1943–2019) Indian mathematician

N.S. Rajaram: From Harappa to Ayodhya, Sahitya Sindhu Prakashana, Bangalore 1997, p.6;

History

“I’m proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you’ll find quite enjoyable.”

Robert Sheckley book Victim Prime

“Make it ten,” Foote said, “and I’ll enjoy it even more.”

Chapter 37 (pp. 151-152)
Victim Prime (1987)

“I call my clients Uncle or Aunty hoping to get a proposal for their daughters.”

Akshay Agrawal (1998) Serial Social Entrepreneur

citation needed I don't call my clients uncle or aunty anymore http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=BWYPAXBWWJV

Hope, Daughters

“Preservation, renewal, and reform of the Union was my main political and, if you will, moral task in my position as president of the USSR. I consider it my greatest sorrow and misfortune that I did not succeed in preserving the country as a single whole. All my efforts were focused on trying to preserve that unity. Incidentally, more and more statements are heard today, including some by participants in the Belovezh accord, that the "soft form of Union Gorbachev proposed" might have protected our nations and nationalities from painful experiences. But, as the saying goes, the train has already left the station.”

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1990s, On My Country and the World (1999)

Pain, Effort, Training, Country

“Opinion has been right to fasten upon sovereignty as the central issue. Either British entry is a declaration of intent to surrender this country's sovereignty, stage by stage, in all that matters as a nation, and makes a nation, or else it is an empty gesture, disgraceful in its hollowness alike to those who proffer and to whose who accept it. The superior people laugh at those who talk about losing our Queen and our Monarchy. ... The Queen is the Queen in Parliament, as truly today as when her predecessor, Tudor Henry, observed that ‘we are nowhere so high in our estate royal as in this Our High Court of Parliament’. The question which the people of this country will have proposed to them is: will you, or will you not, continue to be governed by the Queen in Parliament? It is no less than that, and they have understood it.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

Source: Speech in Doncaster (19 June 1971), quoted in The Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973), p. 119

People, Making love, Question, Country

“The world's problems are pressing in on us all. The scale and impact of human activities now affects a great portion of the global resources important to human welfare. These activities are putting growing, often destructive pressure on the global environment, pressure that appears likely to increase as human numbers swell toward the doubling of the world's population that evidently lies ahead. These pressures can spawn or aggravate conflict that. in a world with so much destructive weaponry, generates important national security problems. Great changes are necessary to help ensure a humane future for the generations to come.
Most of the world's scientific community and many people in the environmental movement are aware of the gravity of the problems. Yet despite sober warnings from these and other groups, in both the industrial and the developing world, re- medial efforts frequently appear powerless and ineffectual. The scientific community has not taken a sustained, powerful role in the public arena where this great cluster of issues is debated and where the problems must be resolved. There is much more that our community can contribute to assessment, warning, and proposals for new patterns of behavior.”

Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999) American physicist

Source: A Distant Light : Scientists and Public Policy (2000), Introduction, p. 1

People, World, Behavior, Communication

“The institutions of democracy will be gradually and, if possible, imperceptibly withdrawn. The Press will become a better and better directed and drilled servant of the capitalist class. All other methods of disseminating information, notably the cinema and the wireless, will be more and more consciously monopolized. Power may be gradually withdrawn from a democratically elected Chamber (cf . Reform of the House of Lords in Britain) or alternatively the franchise may be gradually curtailed (cf. the proposals of the British Conservative party for withholding the franchise from persons in receipt of poor relief). At the same time, the habitual regime of police violence will be increased (cf. the present heavy sentences on working-class militants in Britain passed almost openly, not for any specific offence but because the accused were working-class militants, as notably in the case of Arthur Homer; the increasing use of terror in all American wage disputes ; the police regime in France, etc., etc.). This method applies the principle of " the inevitability of gradualness " to the introduction of an open capitalist dictatorship.”

John Strachey (1901–1963) British politician and writer (1901-1963)

Source: The Coming Struggle for Power (1932), p. 268

Democracy, Time, Housing, Personality

“I propose an idealist ontology that makes sense of reality in a more parsimonious and empirically rigorous manner than mainstream physicalism, bottom-up panpsychism, and cosmopsychism. The proposed ontology also offers more explanatory power than these three alternatives, in that it does not fall prey to the hard problem of consciousness, the combination problem, or the decombination problem, respectively. It can be summarized as follows: there is only cosmic consciousness. We, as well as all other living organisms, are but dissociated alters of cosmic consciousness, surrounded by its thoughts. The inanimate world we see around us is the extrinsic appearance of these thoughts. The living organisms we share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other dissociated alters.”

Bernardo Kastrup Dutch computer scientist and philosopher

" The Universe in Consciousness https://philarchive.org/archive/KASTUI", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 25, iss. 5-6 (2018), p. 125

World, Making love, Problem, Reality

“If pastors and theologians are asked to reflect and follow the direction indicated by the Holy Father, they are certainly not obliged to think that the proposed approach, with the preambles supporting it, are exempt from danger, nor that the advice given is appropriate. They are even fully justified in drawing the attention of the Holy See of the bishops to the serious ambiguities of the underlying doctrine and on the dangers of the proposed pastoral care.”

Louis-Marie de Blignières (1949) French traditionalist Catholic priest

Extensive Article on the problems of Amoris Laetitia -- English translation of the French original https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/09/extensive-article-on-problems-of-amoris.html

Support, Thinking, Drawing

“We are servants of the Crown as well as servants of the people... I am not ashamed to say that in my old age I rejoice in any opportunity which enables me to testify that, whatever may be thought of my opinions, whatever may be thought of my proposals in general politics, I do not forget the service which I have borne for so many years to the illustrious representative of the British Monarchy.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1889/jul/25/the-royal-grants#S3V0338P0_18890725_HOC_142 in the House of Commons (25 July 1889) 1880s

People, Age, Forgetting

“We are certainly ready to fulfill our obligations as ally but we clearly must refuse to be drawn lightly into a world conflagration by Vienna without consideration of our proposals.”

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921) German chancellor during World War I

Letter to Schoen, Pourtales, and Tschirschky (29 July 1914), quoted in Konrad H. Jarauschl, ‘The Illusion of Limited War: Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg's Calculated Risk, July 1914’, Central European History, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), p. 68

World

“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“Governments of developing countries sometimes proposed projects that did not directly benefit the population, but did benefit the government; the so-called 'white elephants.'”

Mark Eyskens (1933) Belgian politician

For example, they wanted to build highways and build large buildings, while we thought it was better to focus on good education. Development cooperation not only helps others, but also ourselves http://www.wereldmissiehulp.be/eyskens/

Country

“We will propose the concept of a working country, we will turn the country into a construction site again. Creating tens of thousands of jobs every year is a priority. We did it once, we will do it again.”

Robert Kocharyan (1954) second President of Armenia

Excerpts from 2021 keynote speech on formation of 'Armenia' alliance

Country

“We have a long-term goal to build the foundation for continued, practical cooperation by continuously holding official and unofficial meetings based on the principle of respecting the rights and proposals of the participants.”

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (1963) Mongolian politician

Source: "Mongolian president signals intention to help resolve N.K. nuclear standoff" in Yonhap News Agency https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20160716002400315 (16 July 2016)

“[W]e shall fight any legislation based on these proposals tooth and nail, line by line, and, however long it takes, we shall destroy the Bill.”

Barbara Castle (1910–2002) British politician

Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1970/nov/26/industrial-relations#column_666 in the House of Commons against the Industrial Relations Bill (26 November 1970)

Fight

“I know better than to say “that’s absurd” to someone trained in Freudian analysis, because such a therapist will simply interpret such an assertion as confirmation of whatever is proposed.”

Robyn Dawes (1936–2010) American psychologist

Source: Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally (2001), Chapter 9, “Sexual Abuse Hysteria” (p. 158)

Training

“The war now proposed is for the purpose of establishing Jewish influence throughout the world.”

George Van Horn Moseley (1874–1960) United States Army general

Source: New York Tribune, 29 March 1939. See Silent Truth https://books.google.com.br/books?id=-bIAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT190&lpg=PT190 by Mark Edwards

War, World

“Humanitarian aid by a country that is selling weapons to mercenaries, which they are using to strike a civilian peaceful population? I propose that Israel send that aid to the mercenaries and to the terrorists as the logical continuation of its activities.”

Nikol Pashinyan (1975) Prime Minister of Armenia

Source: In an interview with Jerusalem Post https://www.primeminister.am/en/interviews-and-press-conferences/item/2020/11/03/Nikol-Pashinyan-Interview-Jerusalem-Post/ (November 3, 2020)

Peace, Country

“The larger hope of a united humanity whose burdens Israel was called to carry and still is appointed to bear must be sounded. The Messianic mission of Israel is central in the teachings of the reform-Synagog. Its symbolism must expose and propose the meaning of this mission. Judaism is preparatory and prelude to the greater glory of "Kingdom come."”

Stephen Samuel Wise (1874–1949) American rabbi (1874-1949)

Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses Source: p. 76 https://archive.org/details/freesynagoguepu00wisegoog/page/n84/mode/2up

Hope

“But when the socialist and, even more, the syndicalist, began to propose his nostrums as medicine for the capitalist system, there appeared a diseased and corrupted form of socialism which found its neophytes in the oddest quarters.”

John Thomas Flynn (1882–1964) American journalist

Source: As We Go Marching (1944), p. 111

Disease, Appearance

“Nobody can educated by himself. Education is the transmission of tradition through a witness. And the educator should be a master. Should be someone with enough to authority, not to impose but propose. But if you are not convinced you are unable to propose.”

Christophe Pierre (1946) French nuncio

Source: A Global Perspective: a Conversation With the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Christophe Pierre https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/a-global-perspective-a-conversation-with-the-apostolic-nuncio-archbishop-christophe-pierre/71427 (3 March 2021)

Education

“It is not only an intellectual proposal, but connection with a divine life that helps to overcome our weaknesses and the darkness of our lives, to rise the summit where we see the Lord, where we see Him glorious and risen and we are filled with joy, where we find the meaning of our existence.”

Antonio Arregui Yarza (1939) Catholic archbishop

The Church in Ecuador officially launches the National Mission: “The Church is in need of a good house-cleaning.” http://www.fides.org/en/news/24075-AMERICA_ECUADOR_The_Church_in_Ecuador_officially_launches_the_National_Mission_The_Church_is_in_need_of_a_good_house_cleaning (28 April 2009)

Life, Help, Joy

“But it is clear there is a difference in the ends proposed: for in some cases they are activities, and in others results beyond the mere activities, and where there are certain ends beyond and beside the actions, the results are naturally superior to the activities. Now, as there are numerous kinds of actions and numerous arts and sciences, it follows that the ends are also various. Thus the end of the healing art is health, of ship-building ships, of strategy victory, of economy wealth.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy

Bk I, Ch I
The Ethics Of Aristotle (Vol. I)

Health, Art, Nature, Science

“The greatest need of the Church in our times is her own evangelization: to strengthen the faith of Christians, reinitiate in the faith those who are non-practicing and propose the faith to non-believers.”

Antonio Dorado Soto (1931–2015) Spanish bishop

“We have fallen into a culture of religious indifference,” Spanish bishop says (11 September 2007), Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10352/we-have-fallen-into-a-culture-of-religious-indifference-spanish-bishop-says

Faith, Time

“It is therefore necessary to state what are the means which in our opinion lead to our desired ends, and which we propose to adopt.”

Errico Malatesta (1853–1932) Italian anarchist

An Anarchist Programme (1920)

“The ability to adapt is learned by facing the difficulties that life proposes us day by day.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'abilità di adattarsi si impara affrontando le difficoltà che la vita ci propone giorno per giorno.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Learning

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Quotes about proposal
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