Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • William Ellery Channing One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Oscar Wilde One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Berger One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Jane Austen One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sigmund Freud One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ''happy'' is not included in the plan of ''Creation.''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Robert Bresson One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Frank Moore Colby One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Elbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    American retired professional basketball player (1947 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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  • Andrew Jackson One man with courage makes a majority.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alan Perlis One man's constant is another man's variable.
    Alan Perlis
    American computer scientist and professor (1922 - 1990)
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  • Helen Rowland One man's folly is often another man's wife.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Harold Wilson One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Jean Cocteau One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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