Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Robertson Davies What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • C. S. Lewis What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Boris Pasternak What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert Browning What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Malcolm Forbes What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Bob Dylan What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Chief Seattle Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Agnes Macphail Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Benjamin Watson Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly for the Lord and not for man, because our true identity is in Him.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • William Butler Yeats When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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