Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • George Steiner We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Mark Twain We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Mark Twain We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles F. Kettering We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Aristotle We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Karl Marx We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Armstrong Williams We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Butch Trucks We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Kin Hubbard We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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