Plain Quotes

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However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resoluteâ€”under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any… — Walt Whitman
I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain… — Frank Marshall Davis
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once… — Eliza R. Snow
Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths… — Rumi
I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then… — Marc Ian Barasch
The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so… — John Stott
Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction… — Judith Guest
The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or… — Richard Farson
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double. — Christina Stead
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient… — Ruth Perry
In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what.… — Barbara Boxer
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is… — Khalil Gibran
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun. — April Winchell
To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. — James Russell Lowell
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are… — Edward Dahlberg
In high school, I was a total jock/extracurricular nerd/just plain nerd. — Mark Feuerstein
Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain… — Michael J. Gelb
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. — Emil Ruder
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you… — Jamaica Kincaid

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