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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me. Such is the conduct which until now I have followed and will follow.
Lafayette, Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis De
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Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.


— Section 34.

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To prove cannot mean anything other than to bring the other person to my own conviction. The truth lies only in the unification of “I” and “You.” The Other of pure thought, however, is the sensuous intellect in general. In the field of philosophy, proof therefore consists only in the fact that the contradiction between sensuous intellect and pure thought is disposed, so that thought is true not only for itself but also for its opposite.


— Z. Hanfi, trans., in The Fiery Brook (1972), p. 75

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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

Charles Lamb

— 1823  Essays of Elia,'A Chapter on Ears'.

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There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

anne brontë

— Gilbert to Rose (Ch. XI : The Vicar Again)

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I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.


— Section 11.

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It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

robert hughes

— "Komar and Melamid" (1982)

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If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

thomas malthus

— Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 214

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The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

charles james napier

— Farwell, Byron: Queen Victoria's Little Wars, p. 27-31

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There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.

ptolemy

— Book IV, sec. 7

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Iraq is not [100 percent] disarmed, the commission can not verify that all weapons and capability to produce weapons are indeed disposed of, destroyed, removed, or rendered harmless in accordance with provisions of the Security Council resolution.

scott ritter

— Weapons inspector: Stop catering to Baghdad. CNN August 27, 1998

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Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

jeanne marie bouvier de la motte guyon

— P. 542. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body.

Alexander Hamilton

— No. 72

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Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.

wilhelm von humboldt

— Ch. 8 (The Limits of State Action (1792))

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Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.

Charles Lamb

— A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.

maimonides

— Ch.8 (Part III)

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One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

Malcolm Muggeridge

— "A Knight of the Woeful Countenance" in The World of George Orwell (1972) edited by Miriam Gross, p. 167

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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.


— Jane Austen (1841) Emma: A Novel. p. 159

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The poor did not hear such doctrines gladly and they were not at all disposed to follow the teaching of Tolstoy. ...such teaching was no more acceptable to the peasants than some of Tolstoy's other views were to his wife and to the Government. ...The more enlightened of their leaders looked upon him as a reactionary , standing in the way of the people's progress.


— p.71 (Why We Fail as Christians (1919))

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If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!


— Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 214

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I am disposed to think that, in point of neatness and beauty, the Grand Chawk could scarcely be surpassed by more than half a dozen streets in England ...the most beautiful city in India


— Observation of a British officer in 1820 when the city was not well maintained, in p.208

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When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, scene 1, line 11.

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When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.


— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, women's suffrage movement leader, in a letter to Julia Ward Howe recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library (October 16, 1873).

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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.

cesare pavese

— Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1940-02-09

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The most handsomest, the most spacious and the most remarkable arena I have ever seen. As a football ground it is unrivalled in the world, it is an honour to Manchester and the home of a team who can do wonders when they are so disposed.


— Sporting Chronicle: Saturday 19th February 1910
— The above words were written on Old Trafford's opening day in 1910. Manchester United had just moved from their old stadium of Bank Street, Clayton, to a new stadium in the Old Trafford area of west Manchester.

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There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume III, p. 100.

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There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.


— Book IV, sec. 7

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Really, Ischomachus, I am disposed to ask: "Does teaching consist in putting questions?" Indeed, the secret of your system has just this instant dawned upon me. I seem to see the principle in which you put your questions. You lead me through the field of my own knowledge, and then by pointing out analogies to what I know, persuade me that I really know some things which hitherto, as I believed, I had no knowledge of.


— Oeconomicus (The Economist) as translated by H.G. Dakyns.

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I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

Charles Lamb

— Charles Lamb, A Chapter on Ears.

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[N]ever has a group disposed of such equipment for saying nothing, and never has a group gone to such lengths to reach the public and bring nothing.


— Albert Gleizes (circa 1923), his critical quote, seizing upon the Dada practices to destroy words and syntaxis; as quoted in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 37

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