Plain Speaking Quotes

• All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.

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  Frank Schaeffer

  Jesus   Purpose   Said  

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

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  Gerald R. Ford

  Addresses   Plain Speaking   Equal  

  Gerald R. Ford's Address After Taking the Oath of Office as Vice President, www.nytimes.com. December 7, 1973.

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• I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

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  Mason Cooley

  Truth   Sides   Mouths  

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• Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

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  Lin Yutang

  Friendship   Plain Speaking   Occasional  

  Lin Yutang, (2013). “Between Tears and Laughter”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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  George Bernard Shaw

  Men   Use   Fellowship  

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3841, e-artnow

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• With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world.

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  Richard Peck

  Drama   World   Shannon  

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• We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.

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  Tommy Douglas

  Imperialism   Plain Speaking   Said  

  Tommy Douglas' speech at NDP National Convention in Ottawa, Ontario, April 21, 1971.

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