Quotes with plains-man

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  • James Thomson Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • André Maurois People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Bow Wow People ask for this life, but they don't really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good - big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside. Me personally, being a man, I'm going to feel better displaying all of this and pouring my heart out on each record.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • Malcolm X People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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  • Marcel Proust People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Robin George Collingwood Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • George Orwell Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Santayana Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Napoleon Hill Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • C.M. Schwab Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Paul II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Al Goldstein Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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