Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Butler The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Publilius Syrus The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bobby Jones The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Max Lerner The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Norman Cousins The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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  • Germaine Greer The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • William Blake The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ben Kingsley The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Charles Sumner The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Cyril Connolly The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ann Landers The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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