Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Mark Twain The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Francis Picabia The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Beth Grant The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that?
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bernie Sanders The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Thomas Carlyle The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Huey Newton The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Salvador Dali The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sean O'Casey The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Helen Rowland The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anatole France The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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