Quotes with plains-man

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  • Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbra Streisand Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Woody Allen Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Men were only made into ''men'' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ''a man'' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Paul De Man Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • John Milton Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Mark Caine Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Don Marquis Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Edith Hamilton Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • James Allen Mind is the Master - power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills - He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Epicurus Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Earl Wilson Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Frank A. Clark Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • Vaclav Havel Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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