One Man Quotes - Page 2

• No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Hours, Fortune

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• One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

  Gerry Adams

  Men, Transparency, Humiliation

  "Collaboration 2. 0: Technology and Best Practices for Successful". Book by Gerry Adams. Happy About, p. 93, January 1, 2008.

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• I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

  Brett Favre

  Inspirational, Team, Winning

  "Brett Favre: First And Ten". IGN interview, www.ign.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

  Alan Cumming

  Men, Challenges, Performing

  "Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Political, Prejudice

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1997). “The Sayings of Doctor Johnson”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Rights, Knows

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence, one-man-one-vote. But is equality realistic? If it is not, to insist on equality must lead to regression.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Democracy, Regression

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.48, Editions Didier Millet

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• If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

  Harry Chapin

  Men, Time On Earth, World

  Song: I Wonder What Would Happen To This World, Album: Living Room Suite, 1978

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• I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, Boxing

  Twitter post from May 25, 2012

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• One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude

  "The Wisdom of the Sands" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Co., (p. 44), 1950.

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• The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

  Joseph Stalin

  Army, Men, Tragic

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• I am only one man with one heart...Call me a demon, call me a monster...but I can't be the strongest forever...!!! — Whitebeard's response to his status as the "Strongest Man in the World".

  Eiichiro Oda

  Heart, Men, Forever

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• I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

  Mark Neumann

  Believe, Men, One Woman

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• All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

  Andrew Davidson

  Men, Trying, Just One

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that any man can be substituted for any other so that his differences make no difference. The two are not at all the same. The democratic rule that all men are equal means that men's being different cannot be made a basis for special privilege or for the invidious advantage of one man over another; equality, under the democratic rule, is the freedom and opportunity of each individual to be fully and completely his different self. Democracy means the right to be different.

  Horace Kallen

  Confused, Mean, Men

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• Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

  Philippa Gregory

  Men, Enemy, Reason

  Philippa Gregory (2006). “The Constant Princess”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

  Euripides

  Crush, Adversity, Men

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.54, University of Chicago Press

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• There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.

  Fatima Jinnah

  Taken, Men, Thinking

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• The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

  William Matthews

  Disappointment, Failure, Spirit

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• The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Party, Men

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• There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Men, Names

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

  Karl Pilkington

  Men, Years, Bags

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

  William J. Murray

  Men, Majority Rule, Democracy

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• Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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