Quotes with plains-man

Quotes 3501 till 3520 of 4539.

  • Albert Einstein The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thomas Paine The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Adam Smith The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • B. F. Skinner The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
    Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • James Baldwin The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • I Ching The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
    Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Gregory Nunn The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Daniel Webster The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • Dale Carnegie The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • William Faulkner The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Camden The sea hath fish for every man.
    Remains Concerning Britain
    William Camden
    English antiquarian, historian and topographer (1551 - 1623)
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  • Alfred Loisy The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Claiborne Pell The secret is to always let the other man have your way.
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