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And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.
john donne— 1626 Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir William Cockayne, 12 Dec.
Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.
walter pater— 1873 'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
calvin coolidge— From 'Address at Holy Cross' (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231
This is made since a long time in Pichilemu, because of that, and the anxiety of our inhabitants we are proposing that these beaches become legal.
jorge vargas gonzález— Vargas on nude beaches in Pichilemu, in Terra (24 December 2002)
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
walter pater— Conclusion
The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.
john ralston saul— "Regulation"
“What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.”
john cage— quoted in "Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music", ISBN 0819563110
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.
konstantin chernenko— Quoted in "World Peace and the Developing Countries" - Page 126 - by Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio - 1986
And don't you remember Keats proposing 'Confusion to the memory of Newton ' and upon your insisting on an explanation before you drank it, his saying, 'Because he destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism? Ah, my dear old friend, you and I shall never see such days again!
john keats— Benjamin Haydon, Autobiography and Memoirs.
Oh, get ahold of yourself. Nobody's proposing that we parse English.
larry wall— Usenet article <199709032332.QAA21669@wall.org> (1997)
John Rawls's argument that all are equally worthy of self-esteem "is almost a parody of this tendency, writing hundreds of pages to persuade men, and proposing a scheme of government that would force them, not to despise anyone.
— John Rawls in “The Closing of the American Mind”, in Political Criticism, p.95
