Quotes with man-on-the-street

Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 4652.

  • Carl Sagan In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Harry S. Truman In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Malcolm X In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Christopher Fry In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • George Gurdjieff In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Aldous Huxley In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carla Bruni In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
    Carla Bruni
    Italian-French singer-songwriter (1967 - )
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Abraham Lincoln In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this book.
    Reply to Loyal Colored People of Baltimore upon Presentation of a Bible, 7 september 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
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  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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