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The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your… — Joseph Alsop
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that… — Sylvester Stallone
I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean. — Jack Lambert
We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know,… — Neville Bonner
Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing… — Tony Blair
...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded… — Al Gore
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable… — George Orwell
I always choose an area that is of personal interest, but I don't plan my travels in detail. There are so many variables one cannot… — Josef Hoflehner
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to… — Katharine Hepburn
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. — Joseph Addison
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature. — H. A. L. Fisher
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be… — Ray Bradbury
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Brian Barry
It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing… — Murray Rothbard
95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details,… — Ha-Joon Chang

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