Quotes with plains-man

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  • Aldous Huxley Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Christopher Morley Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • William S. Gilbert Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • E. M. Forster Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Paul De Man Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Nelson Mandela Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
    Documentary Mandela (1994)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • E. B. White Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Richard Nixon Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Aldous Huxley Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • James Russell Lowell Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Bertrand Russell Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Samuel Johnson Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Desire is the essence of a man.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bobby Unser Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
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