Quotes with plains-man

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  • Oscar Wilde A man who is much talked about is always very attractive.
    The importance of being earnest (1895) act 2
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Babe Ruth A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Phillips Brooks A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Archibald Macleish A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Malcolm X A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Seneca A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Nelson Mandela A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
    De lange weg naar vrijheid
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Charles M. Schwab A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Martin Luther King A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • C. S. Forester A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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