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«[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable-but I didn't know quite what.»
«I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution»
«I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?»
«Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.»
«We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.»
«Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.»
«Surely, nothing is more simple than Time. His march is straightforward; but we should have leisure allowed us to look back upon the distance we have come, and not be counting his steps every moment.»