To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde
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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
Oscar Wilde
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
Edgar Allan Poe
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas A. Edison
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
This has some implications to developments statewide that developers have to do the proper public environmental disclosure process before they ask permission to rezone or redevelop.
Jeff Mikulina
If the board isn't keeping the association informed and making decisions that are proper for the association, then a management company can't make those decisions or set the agenda or force them to spend money on things that need to be done.
James Strichartz
We believed we had the proper authorization to build the plant and build it where it is.
Norma Dunn
Even with severe osteoporosis and proper approach, which is individualized for the woman, you can rebuild bone.
Carolyn Smith
What is love but an allergic reaction to the proper lighting!
Scott Thompson
Fearne and I are proper mates and both have a genuine love of music and very different sorts of music at that, but we do have common ground and that's when you get the golden moments.
Reggie Yates
I'm not suggesting there are any errors at all. I'm saying that without a proper audit, there's no way to be sure.
Pete Williams
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Robert M. Hutchins
Without proper pre-test counseling ... there will be a lot of people unduly alarmed.
Michael Greene
We ranked Phoenix as Phoenix proper but it is an indication that the metro area is shining and is a great destination for cyclists.
Loren Mooney
I have joint custody of Christian. We have always been friends. We just had to go through the proper process.
Sean Combs
We're going to have to be a hell of a lot fitter than we are now to do a proper job.
Nigel Mansell
The government needs to have a strategy to feed the most vulnerable people. It is not enough to provide ART without the proper nutrition.
Iris Krebber
Proper names are rigid designators.
Saul Kripke
This is incredibly fertile land. With proper irrigation, you could grow anything here. You need both development aid and emergency aid, but right now you're getting little of either.
Mike Huggins
You always have to go through the proper permitting channels and we still have a pretty long way to go, but we think it's going as smoothly as it possibly can.
Patrick Cleary
This was the first time that [a proper summer break] has happened for me and it is my third year with Bayern.
Roy Makaay
We are going into a proper studio on Thursday (August 1 with 192 faders which is a lot of choice a bit like the supermarket and it may all go off before we get to it so we have to eat quick.
Thom Yorke
We did go through what we thought was a proper investigation, ... I talked to several people involved.
Tim Tackett
It shows that there is proper management, and it's also our state animal.
Jim Slinsky
Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.
Bo Bennett
SDUIH has been a major factor in assisting individuals in controlling their own destiny with proper health care, and achieving the quality of medical care they desire. The loss of SDUIH would have a detrimental impact on the community as well as the health care of the Native American community.
Bobbi Piasecki
I think the average American has a better idea how to manage their health care costs, to make better decisions for their families than an insurance underwriter, an insurance company executive, or bureaucrat in Tallahassee or Washington. I think people make good decisions given the proper incentives.
Jeff Koch
It is a proper one - he said he felt it was like a knife.
Graeme Souness
A system with proper margin and maintenance should not have this bad luck. The mayor is absolutely right. I'm at least as angry as he is.
John W. Rowe
There was no business purpose to this other than to hide the loss. I knew this was not proper.
David Delainey
It'll be brilliant, Fearne and I are proper mates and we both have a genuine love of music.
Reggie Yates
We are dealing with human beings, and human beings always need something more than technically proper care. They need humanity. They need heartfelt concern.
Cardinal Lozano
They're not the proper way to address the issue of health care coverage.
Kelly Hobbs
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
P.t. Barnum
We are hoping that the public will bear with us and make their effort to bring the proper ID.
Karen Osborne
It was a proper pace and he was found out in the last furlong. It won't happen again.
Luca Cumani
We set out to defend the proper rights of immigrants everywhere and we definitely achieved that. We will continue to fight for the cause to show the significance that this bill has on the people.
Luis Ibarra
It's convenient in a way, because you don't have to answer many questions: People say, 'Man, how are you feeling?' And I say, 'How do I look?' And they go, 'Oh, okay.' I've got the coffin maker calling every now and then about measurements, wanting to give me a proper fit.
Danny Elfman
The business of government ought to be government, not business. I do think there's been too much of a blurring of the line between the proper role of business and the proper role of government.
Darryl Paulson
He's going to give away the car seats. The police will be there to show people the proper way to install them.
Al Cadenas
Armed intervention is always a decision for the proper authorities and not for private companies such as Shell.
Caroline Wittgen
But once it's open and services are being conducted, we ask that proper respect be given.
Becky Richardson
No, and I don't want to again, either. I really don't think that's the proper thing to do.
Buddy Bell
I don't think anyone has a good way of finding the cost of an event. Most companies don't really do the proper postmortem, or, if they do, they have no idea what to include in the analysis.
Peter Firstbrook
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.
David Hume
I have some very strong feelings, not just about this match, but the whole series. I will convey it (to the ICC) through proper channels.
Dav Whatmore
If this agency had simply bellied up and paid to have proper investigations done, this problem would not exist.
Rosemary Jenks
Apparently, once the background came back the proper procedures were not followed.
Jackie Tolbert
Along with volunteers comes misuse of funds, not having proper knowledge of policies and procedures and codes of conduct.
Cheri Barry
I don't have proper words to express my joy as I am going to join my parents in Lahore after a gap of three years.
Farha Masih
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Diogenes the Cynic
It's purely based on geology. Leon County has the proper geology and oil fields to make this work.
Michael Parks
My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in proper context, ... I have had a long and lumbering life -- this book will take time.
Pete Townshend
I was just proud to be onstage with her. It's just proper old-school theatrical heart.
Michael Ball
While their analysis is seen as proper, it is also somewhat out of date. If it was up to date it would be taken more seriously.
Adrian Schmidt
He believes that he will receive a fair and proper hearing the U.S. on these very serious allegations.
Judith Seddon
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
They're just not getting the proper education at the public school. They're acting out and can't handle a large school.
James Depasquale
We believe that rape victims deserve compassionate and competent medical care. But we disagree on what proper medical care is.
Deirdre Mcquade
We didn't (do that) good a job of stopping him (Proper). We just weren't physically big enough to handle him, but I thought the kids played hard.
Pete Hanson
It's more about who has the proper credentials to be a leader.
Mary Joan Leith
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
We see no logic in making any change because everyone needs a proper chance to prove himself.
Wasim Bari
What we don't have is the luxury of time for south county. So it's all the more important for them to get us information as soon as possible... to assure that we've had the proper due diligence.
Shannon Larocque
The decision to suspend the air operator certificate was based on a review of the company's record and concerns with the company's ability to exercise operational control, including proper record keeping and aircraft maintenance.
Rod Nelson
We hope that through the collective decision of our European friends -- with whom we have exchanged views over the past two weeks -- we will witness in Vienna the adoption of a proper decision and a logical and principled approach.
Manuchehr Mottaki
Any adult can distinguish reality from fiction. But you cannot expect a child to make proper judgements.
Marc Carroggio
He could become dehydrated from not having formula made the proper way or given the amount he needs or the amount of times he needs to feed a day.
Lisa Martin
I learned that we are capable of winning, but I also learned we are awful. There's a lesson in everything we do, but the bottom line is that right now, we don't have the proper tools to compete.
Tim Singleton
This is coming down rather quickly. We'll do the best we can to get all the information out. We need to work with our cities to make sure we get the proper message out to our customers.
David Tucker
The proper approach is to have a long-term strategy that has a balance of different types of investments in the portfolio, so that it's built in that it deals with changing market conditions.
Barbara Roper
I have administered other grants but each grant is different so we are going to take a trip up to Jefferson City to make sure we have all the proper procedures.
Bruce Harrill
Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.
Lucretia Mott
Clogs can be avoided if proper steps are taken.
Stu Schneider
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Toru Takemitsu
We already have some specific language about proper behavior in general.
Sterling Ivey
But I think resolution is cheap and for lazy readers. Real life doesn't have that resolution. It's probably never going to be in my nature to deliver a proper ending.
Patrick Moody
The foreigners were caught on Yugoslav territory without the proper identification and had mining equipment with them, which was, from the army's point of view, enough to make a legal arrest.
Nebojsa Pavkovic
He tried to obtain the proper medical treatment to treat this, and he was denied.
David Morales
What I am being assured of is that service will not change. We will have proper coverage for our Borough.
Sandy Duncan
He arrived in good shape, conscious, I talked to him, he expressed his appreciation and his thanks for French government that allowed him to be in a proper hospital.
Leila Shahid
A lot of the most proper-acting people are the most savage in the bedroom!
Busta Rhymes
The course challenges many of the ideas and beliefs that so many of us hold with little investigation into a proper defense for these thoughts. Though the process can sometimes be frustrating, I'd rather have a process that makes me reconsider my thoughts about important issues than to progress through life having never considered the ramifications of my positions.
Michael Gaffney
We couldn't wait. We did not have a proper sleep that night.
Shur Gopal
There's still a lot of property to develop. We'll be expanding things across the bypass, and we'll be adding things at what you call Broadway at the Beach proper.
Pat Dowling
I have never told any analyst what he or she had to write -- and I never would, ... My conduct has been entirely appropriate and proper.
Sanford Weill
When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.
Shirin Ebadi
In many of the titles mentioned, the increases are proper. However, a handful of them are very much out of line. In fact, some border on obscene.
Mayor Richard Bohan
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
We believe Ms. Frank's initial practice, collecting the amount stated in the statute at the time payment was tendered, was proper.
Robert Mcdonald
This bombing ... is another indication that the Palestinian Authority must take proper steps against terror, and without these steps, there will be no progress between both sides.
David Baker
You should spend no time whatsoever wondering if those funds are good for you, once you're confident your employer has done the proper due diligence.
Wayne Bogosian
Should bid estimates come in higher than is determined proper, the project would be sent out again for bids.
Jeff Emerson
This will be a major success for EU foreign policy if it can lead to a proper political dialogue on the causes which have led to some of the recent violence.
Gunnar Wiegand
My feeling is relief ... I'm glad it's over. The members will be free to vote with the assurance that they have proper information.
William Higgins
It specifically fits each individual body's shape and size, which allows the child then to get the proper performance/endurance workout.
Linda Walsh
Without a proper management plan, there should not be a hunt.
Jeff Tittel
You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...
John Mcdonald
We feel the pension conversion was done properly. We are reviewing the lawsuit right now, and we'll be prepared to address it at the proper time.
Randy Wheeless
I do not ask to profit. I ask for what is fair and proper.
Jackie Peterson
You have to give a lot of the credit to Angie Proper. We really struggled to contain her. They were able to spread us out on offense and got a lot of help on defense.
Karen Mccaffrey
You stop at all of the greasy nasty-ass truck stops and you never get a proper rest. But every night you party like it's the last night that you're ever going to have to party.
Busta Rhymes
The real question is, is it proper for the state to establish a hit list of employers if they don't provide health care?
Tony Gagliardi
Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.
William Irwin Thompson
The key to dealing with mold issues is not trapping moisture. Using permeable materials, like polystyrene, allows moisture and vapor to move through the material. If you can combine permeable materials and the proper level of dehumidification, a finished basement shouldn't develop water issues.
Andy Engel
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
Tom Courtenay
It didn't go too well with Yale students. Yale students didn't open their minds to two candidates. I was trying to reach the students, [but] I didn't know the proper way to communicate with them.
Cordelia Thorpe
Angie Proper played a really tough game. Huntingdon did a really nice job limiting our second and third chance opportunities.
Tina Gaughan
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Robert A. Schumann
If they don't have the proper ID or the handicapped person is not in the car, they can be warned, ticketed or have the pass confiscated.
John Power
Proper warm-up (exercise) is key.
Dale Lindsey
We have lots of information but it is not proper to disclose it yet, ... The investigation is going well.
Shivraj Patil
Proper download of his experience.
Gloria Borger
There's an enormous inner concentration that's necessary to have the proper bearing on stage and to fill out the simple movements with energy. Even when an actor is standing still on stage, there's still an energy projected from that body. The audience should feel it, all the way through the performance.
Gary Mathews
It's not the proper way to run an organization. Would you run a business through fear?
Tony Gerlicz
The way they're so proper.
Judy Anderson
He also doesn't always act in a proper manner at City Council meetings, ... I think the mayor's office should take a little different direction.
Joseph Wood Krutch
It just seems with such a quick implementation, it's going to be hard to make sure everything is done in a proper manner. It's hard to believe that certain things won't slip through the cracks.
John Rustin
If there had been a proper decision to go to war last night then there would have been a drop in risk aversion but instead we are still stumbling in the dark.
Patrik Schowitz
It might not change the result in the case -- it could be that the proper standards are applied and Napster still loses, ... We're totally neutral on the issue of how this applies to Napster.
Jonathan Band
They charge for proper disposal and (if) they don't do it they are profiting off a crime.
Lawrence Lau
One man's blight is another man's castle. Without proper restrictions and well-defined parameters, governments will exploit the blight loophole and continue to abuse eminent domain power.
Peyton Knight
There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, ... Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing has been made.
John Podesta
We believed this was the proper venue and that she could certainly get a fair and neutral review of her case.
Sean Cullen
Sushi is not really about flavor as much as texture. Everything is usually made bite-size so you can eat it in one bite, which is more proper.
Tim Hoffman
[Harvest of Hope] focuses on proper and responsible stewardship of the earth. It's more about living out the religion.
Jim Earles
They'll have to make sure that it's fair, that there's proper auditing (of where money goes). There has to be a paper trail, things like that.
Scott Larrivee
We're very happy with the court's decision. It was the proper thing to do.
John Gatti
DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. These two kinds of social activity overlap.
Ambrose Bierce
We will no doubt monitor more intensively the progress made by our 'golden boys' during the preparation for the Asian Games. We will ensure adequate equipment for training, better coaching and proper tune-ups for them.
Kusnan Ismukanto
We see fraud training for bookkeepers as preventive health. If they don't see their company's chest pains and shortness of breath - - and take the proper action -- the consequences may be fatal.
Steve Sahlein
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman
This move is to put the defense team on a proper legal foundation and when the family appoints lawyers it then knows who is whom.
Abdel Haq Alani
The financial adviser's job is to marry up the proper money manager's strategy with your unique individual needs as an individual investor and your tolerance for risk.
Douglas Gill
They're a big team. Their setter is about 6-7. They have an opposite 6-6, 6-7. Their two middles are 6-8. They're pretty experienced. Their go-to guy is Matt Proper. He's the real deal, got a real live arm, great serve and if they need someone to get after it, they set to him.
Arnie Ball
Both statements are true. It's important to put things in their proper perspective.
Matthew Palmer
Things are going to be looked at more carefully. I don't see that this should create tension. This is the proper role of the council.
Steve Bass
We're going to come back. It's one thing to grow, but we have to take a close look at not growing too fast so we can provide the proper services.
John Beacon
She's done a real good job. She works very hard to get in the proper position and then she's very good making plays on the fly of the ball.
Karl Smesko
The accused are supposed to be already under the custody of the court when they surrendered to the proper authorities -- the US embassy -- as called for in the VFA.
Judge Renato Dilag
We have a long way to go in mastering that art, ... As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be stopped in the middle so we have a proper balance between volume and price.
Neville Isdell
It's just been too sensitive. It's a great story, but (the networks) were not sure how it could be handled in a proper manner.
David Gerber
I was not expecting that at all. I thought this girl is all prim and proper on the outside, but she's a wild woman on the inside.
Isaac Mizrahi
Yes, I'm worried ... they're a country that's trying to become a market economy and we need them to take a proper response.
Shoichi Nakagawa
We are not neglecting penmanship, but we have prioritized it in its proper order in the big picture of literacy. If we are in school for six or seven hours a day, it can't be an hour.
Debbie Coffman
Civil society groups, faith-based groups and individual citizens from Eastern and Coast provinces blamed it on lack of proper policies.
Rev Mutava Musyimi
Through subsequent investigation, we were able to locate and identify that individual and working with the Thai police to obtain a proper legal document to effect his arrest.
Robert Cahill
Whenever there's new technology, people focus on the fears. But the more people do it and have positive stories, those fears are put in proper perspective.
Helen Malani
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
James F. Cooper
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Thorstein Veblen
Our 'chief,' who was Frank, had to talk, then the translator had to translate it for Chief Julio. It had to be proper.
Andy Neary
When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.
Harry Sinden
We must win back the trust of both domestic and foreign investors. For that, we are taking the proper steps.
Tabare Vazquez
We have two years to ramp up proper management for these sides as well as employment, education, accommodation and other issues for the teams.
Roger Smith
Their defense is fast, ... We can't make any mistakes. We have to take great first steps and proper angles, but we also have to be at our best blocking. These guys can run, and they know how to chase the ball. They do a great job of swarming the football.
Houston Nutt
There are other designers making money from these designs and that's where the proper authorities would come in. If there were restrictions on that, it would be both good and bad. There is the side where these people are going to make all this money from our flag and our country doesn't benefit.
Karl Williams
We have concerns that growth is managed using proper standards.
Peggy Beltrone
I believe that this rule will benefit many providers by making it easier to file the proper paperwork when hiring temporary employees.
Tom Copeland
Until they get education, proper health care, until someone teaches them how to manage land, it's going to carry on.
James Lorenz
It's like acting totally different than myself ... I get to be totally proper and stuff.
George Martinez
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Abraham Lincoln
The Disney Company wanted to do a proper 75th-birthday celebration of Mickey. What better way than to do a tour of Mickey statues?
Leila Dunbar
Perhaps explaining my story of three years ago in its proper context at least won't make matters any worse.
Christoffer Zieler
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
It's still an investigation so we can identify him, give it some closure and inform possible family members so he can receive a proper burial.
Jeff Young
A lot of people have a misconception that roses won't last for more than a day or two; but if taken care of correctly, roses should last a week to two weeks. We are more than happy to inform our customers on proper flower care.
Jamie Whitmore
The fire department always can use money to buy equipment for the firefighters, ... It will go to the proper places so it can benefit the proper members of the Hanover Borough Fire Department.
James Roth
Our mission is to be the leading-edge supplier of healthy pet foods for dogs and cats. We have helped some of the most finicky eaters, but more importantly, we have helped thousands of dogs and cats live longer and healthier lives through proper, advanced nutrition.
Ron Mayert
Most of the kids weren't afraid and knew all about proper oral hygiene. The staff also did a great job supporting the kids that were a little afraid.
Wendy Lombardi
Proper tire inflation makes a world of difference in gas mileage.
Charles Wheeler
When there are a lot of people involved you can't control the process the same. With just the two of us it's easier because we know we are taking all the proper precautions to protect the mushrooms from disease.
Victoria Ridley
As information becomes available across the enterprise, providers can better produce proper decisions. Medical errors are decreased.
Todd Minnigh
Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.
Harvey Johnson
You could see that it didn't matter who was coming at him. The puck was not going to get behind Kyle Jones (Saturday). He seemed to see everything clearly, and even when it was a scramble, he was in proper position.
Tim Coghlin
We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws.
Jerry Yang
Smoke is an issue. I don't recommend them for residential environment without raising the chimney. ... With the proper chimney height it shouldn't be an issue.
James Curtis
We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.
William Ruckelshaus
The men and women who finish this course will be proper officers. They will be paid when they leave this compound - through international assistance and Somalia?s own revenues.
Maxwell Gaylard
Due to the current atmosphere and conditions, the seventh China-Japan-Republic of Korea leaders' meeting will be postponed until a proper date.
Foreign Ministry
We felt U.S.A.D.A. made the proper ruling. It seems to me the anti-doping rules are lacking any notion of common sense.
Howard Jacobs
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