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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ↗

— Alcuin

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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. ↗

— Rory Bremner

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The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

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Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

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