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That was plain speaking!

He will be missed for the plain speaking in his language and his [refusal] to pull his punches. There was a time when he moved markets all by himself.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

Mary Worley Montagu

I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.

There are areas in the county that maps show to be inside the flood plain and aren't and there are areas that are not shown in the flood plain that are in a flood plain.

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 (1772-1834)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Fly patterns are a lot like women. Some are plain. Some are flashy and some are in between. Look at your wife. She caught you, right? Tie a fly patterned after her, and you'll probably catch a lot of fish, but don't dare tell her if you're tying "plain".

Jimmy D. Moore (37-)

I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain

William Feather (1889-1981)

The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.

Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556)

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

We chose the languages because we wanted to help people, and the people that needed to be helped were Chinese-speaking person, Farsi-speaking person and Arabic-speaking person, ... In these countries, the censorship was so heavy that you need technical skills to circumvent the censorship and to be able to publish things anonymously.

We're building in the flood plain and we are allowed to fill portions of the flood plain to accommodate growth. Whether that's right or wrong is a public discussion that should occur.

Robert Tiedemann

We try to keep 35-40 current students with good speaking voices who enjoy speaking on the phone.

Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone. I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We should avoid speaking unpleasant things which our heart and mind do not approve of. This means to say that one should speak twice before speaking.

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