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On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.
Nelson A. Miles

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Andre Bazin

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.
Guy Madison

Proper names are rigid designators.
Saul Kripke

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.
Jonathan Swift

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
Alton Brown

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
Patricia Highsmith

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
Thomas Keneally

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
Josephus Daniels

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
Sarah Zettel

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.
Margo MacDonald

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life.
Robert Fraser

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
W. H. Auden

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.
Matt Blunt

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
Tom Courtenay

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