Quotes with plains-man

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  • John Newton Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Albert Schweitzer As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Elias Canetti A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Ayn Rand A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • B. F. Skinner A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A clever man commits no minor blunders.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Fuller A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Shakespeare A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Thomas Fuller A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Jane Fonda A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
    Jane Fonda
    American actress, writer, political activist and former fashion model (1937 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is a god in ruins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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