Quotes with plains-man

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  • Charles Dickens Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Malcolm X Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ronald Reagan Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Adolf Loos Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Samuel Butler Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • William Morris Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Philip James Bailey Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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  • Aldous Huxley Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Amy Lowell Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Jean Dubuffet Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
    Jean Dubuffet
    French artist (1901 - 1985)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bhagavad Gita As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Edgar W. Howe As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • James Madison As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • William Blake As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bernie Sanders As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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