Quotes with plains-man

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  • Billie Jean King It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Theodore Parker It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Anna Wickham It is well within the order of things that man should listen when his mate sings; but the true male never yet walked who liked to listen when his mate talked.
    Anna Wickham
     
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Martin Luther King It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Ayn Rand It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Robert Bolt It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
    Robert Bolt
     
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  • T. S. Eliot It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry. That is a life.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Beryl Bainbridge It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Frederick the Great It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Albert Einstein It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Eric Hoffer It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It takes a great man to be a good listener.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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