Quotes with man-in-the-street

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  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Plato No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jonathan Swift No wise man ever wished to be younger.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alexander Pope No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Hazlitt No young man believes he shall ever die.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Sydney Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
    Sydney Harris
     
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  • Samuel Johnson Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
    Source: White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • R. Davies Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ronald Laing Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Alexander Pope Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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