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Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 5049.

  • Bill Haywood If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
    Source: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
    Bill Haywood
     
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  • Brigitte Bardot If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Emile-Auguste Chartier If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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  • Michel Foucault If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Erica Jong If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • W. H. Auden If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    Source: MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Robert South If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
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  • Paul Gallico If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
    Paul Gallico
     
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If there is anything that a man can do and do it well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Hubert Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Seneca If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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