Quotes with man-in-the-street

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  • Gloria Steinem I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Romain Rolland I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
    Romain Rolland
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1915) (1866 - 1944)
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  • James Keir Hardie I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
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  • Adrian Edmondson I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Samuel Goldwyn I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Socrates I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • John Keats I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom - one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Sam Houston I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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  • Joel Rosenberg I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
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  • George Orwell I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edgar W. Howe If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Jennings Bryan If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Bob Bartlett If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
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