Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Henry Miller The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aleister Crowley The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Erich Fromm The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Blaise Pascal The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Oscar Wilde The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Carl Sandburg The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Graham The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
    Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition,
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
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  • Brad Katsuyama The people who watch a movie like 'Wolf of Wall Street' and want to work on Wall Street are exactly the kind of people who shouldn't.
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  • Brooks Atkinson The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
    Once Around the Sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Stokely Carmichael The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Francis Bacon The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Plautus The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Albert J. Nock The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Winston Churchill The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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