Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 4652.
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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?Source: The People, Yes (1936) -
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
Source: Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, -
The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
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The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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