Quotes with man-on-the-street

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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Martin Luther King A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • C. S. Forester A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Lucius Accius A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
    Lucius Accius
    Roman tragic poet and literary (170 - 86)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • George Gurdjieff A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Barbara Cartland A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Don Henley A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
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  • Harvey S. Firestone A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
    Harvey S. Firestone
    American businessman
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
    Youth and life (1913)
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A man without a vote is man without protection.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Malcolm X A man without any history is like a tree without roots.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • John W. Foster A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Marlene Dietrich A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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