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I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's… — Connie Willis
Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to… — Bram Stoker
Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people… — Jon Stewart
I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired… — William Goldman
If this keeps up, we’re going to own Melengar,” Hadrian mentioned. “What’s this we stuff?” Royce asked. “You’re retired, remember?” “Oh? So you’ll be leading… — Michael J. Sullivan
Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to… — Vandana Shiva
The stupid vamp just asked me to marry him. Here, now? As if looking like I just died is how I wanted to be proposed… — C.C. Hunter
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? — David Mitchell
I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you. — Kiera Cass
wait," I said. "so you're saying that you proposed to me because I'm a mess and I'm a person and because we need each other,… — Paul Rudnick
She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe… — Ruth Ozeki
I have been proposed to four times. Twice at the beginning of a relationship and twice at the end of a relationship. I've never said… — Juliette Binoche
People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart. — Stan Lee
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem. — George Polya
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since… — Bertrand Russell
Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they… — Stephen Jay Gould
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do… — Stephen Jay Gould
The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. — Henry Rollins
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth… — Viet D. Dinh
In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading… — Ann Kirkpatrick
While I thought myself employed only in forming a nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my… — Antoine Lavoisier
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them… — Seth Shostak
When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007, the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of… — Aaron Klein
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform. — Enrique Pena Nieto

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