"Man proposes, God disposes." — Plautus

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• Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command… — Albert Schweitzer
• The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and… — Samuel Johnson
• At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure… — Thomas Merton
• Man proposes, but God disposes. — Thomas a Kempis
• Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes. — Don Aitkin
• The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be… — Susanne Katherina Langer
• How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man… — Andre Breton
• The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of… — Watchman Nee
• Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it… — Eliphas Levi
• A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that… — Theodore White
• Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of… — Tom Wicker
• Man proposes, and God disposes. — Ludovico Ariosto

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