Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • George Orwell Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Santayana Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Napoleon Hill Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • C.M. Schwab Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Paul II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Al Goldstein Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • B. F. Skinner Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Sidney Madwed Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Bruce Springsteen Poor man wanna be rich,
    rich man wanna be king
    And a king ain't satisfied
    till he rules everything.
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) Badlands
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Williams Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Tacitus Posterity gives every man his true value.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Stevie Smith Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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