Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Aristophanes Let each man exercise the art he knows.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Hannah Arendt Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Eugenio Montale Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Joseph Addison Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Alfred Adler Man know much more than he understands.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Robert Frost Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Alcuin of York Man thinks, God directs.
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Frederick Douglass Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Eugene O'Neill Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bruce Lee Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Joseph Addison Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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