One Man Quotes - Page 20

• My favorite time in music is probably 1970-75. Still Bill by Bill Withers, Harvest by Neil Young, John Prine's first album, James Taylor's One Man Dog-I hope I can bring the same sort of spirit I hear on those records.

  Amos Lee

  Dog, Men, Albums

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• One man or woman called of God is worth a hundred who have elected to work for God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Men, Hundred

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.41, Discovery House

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• Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gratitude, Lying, Men

  Oliver Goldsmith (1849). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings : Stereotyped from the Paris Edition : Complete in One Volume”, p.258

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• For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention.

  John Dewey

  Men, Religion, Thank God

  John Dewey (2015). “Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding”, p.2, 谷月社

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• One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Strong, Men, Evil

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• The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

  James Bryce

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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• Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Atheist, Heart, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.236, Princeton University Press

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• The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and every American can celebrate.

  Kenneth C. Davis

  Country, Cheer, Men

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• Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Men, Political, President

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• I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.

  Tracy Morgan

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Important, Majority

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• Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Order, Two

  Mark Twain (2008). “Life on the Mississippi (Volume 1 of 3 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.167, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

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• Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Violation

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.229, Penguin

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• [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, Voting, Principles

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• Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Men, Palaces

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• Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

  Steven J Lawson

  Men, Shoulders, Translations

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• I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Exercise, Men, Weight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Laughter, Men, Genius

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

  Tammy Wynette

  Love, Pregnancy, Men

  "Stand by Your Man" (song) (1968). Cowritten with Billy Sherrill.

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• Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

  Groucho Marx

  Motivational, Leadership, Witty

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• One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Men, Praying

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• And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

  Alice Munro

  Coffee, Men, Thinking

  Alice Munro, Jane Urquhart (2003). “No Love Lost”, New Canadian Library

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• One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Kindness, Men, Compassion

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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• One man's pornography is another man's theology.

  Clive Barker

  Men, Theology, Pornography

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 21, 2013

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