Plainly Quotes

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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. — Abraham Lincoln
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and… — Charles Darwin
Love can be sent to others in a thousand ways. Even thoughts of love can change things. They can be felt. By you, and by… — Neale Donald Walsch
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you… — Loren Eiseley
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk… — John William Strutt
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death]… — Harry A. Blackmun
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Oliver E. Williamson
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the… — Ferdinand von Mueller
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be… — George Washington
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think… — Mark Twain
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who… — Victor Hugo
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all… — Christopher Hitchens
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is… — Leo Tolstoy
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on… — Richard Baxter
Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that… — Morton Hunt
The only way we can determine the true age of the earth is for God to tell us what it is. And since He has… — Henry M. Morris
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its… — Corliss Lamont

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