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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 crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. – Michael J. Gelb
Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us. – Real Live Preacher
No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess. – I Ching
The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. – Robert Louis Stephenson
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. – Lois McMaster Bujold
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. – Homer
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Blinded by self-conceit and knowing nothing, Like elephant infatuate with passion, I thought within myself, I all things knew; But when by slow degrees I somewhat learnt By aid of wise preceptors, my conceit, Like some disease, passed off; and now I live In the plain sense of what a fool I am. – Bhartrihari
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. – Henry Anatole Grunwald
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. – Amelia Earhart
God loves the world. That's plain to see as we read His Word. Today, God loves the world through us, His Children of Grace. Christ is 'in' us and we are 'in' Christ. Christ is loving people and reaching out to them through us. He is making His appeal through us. He is reconciling people to Himself through us – Mark McGee
Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove. – Cardinal John Newman
Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind. – Stephen Vincent Benet
If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite – Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. – Newt Gingrich
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. – Jerry Garcia
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. – Evelyn Waugh
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. – Robertson Davies
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. – Henry David Thoreau
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either. – A. W. Tozer
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. – Katharine Hepburn
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. – Jean Kerr

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