One Man Quotes - Page 28

• We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things.

  Plato

  Work, Men, Quality

  Plato (1950). “The Republic”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

  Tom Arnold

  Men, Differences, Energy

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• One man by delaying saved the state for us.

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, States, Saved

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• By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Past, Men, Expectations

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.23, Broadview Press

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• One man's trash is another man's girlfriend.

  Jerry Lawler

  Girlfriend, Men, Trash

  Jerry Lawler (2003). “It's Good to Be the King... Sometimes”, World Wrestling Entertainment

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• One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

  Robert Bly

  Men, Captains, Knows

  Interview with Francis Quinn, www.robertbly.com. April 2000.

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• Next to the love between man and his Creator,
  The love of one man and one woman,
  Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal,
  That has been set before the world.
  A perfect marriage is like a pure heart:
  Those who have it are fit to see God.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Heart, Love Is, Men

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• In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

  Milton Friedman

  Men, Evil People, Good People

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• The Germans tend to like to blame the Nazi experience on one man who can be scapegoated. If you pile all the blame onto him, you exonerate the German masses from any responsibility.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  Responsibility, Men, Blame

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Exercise, Men, Natural

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• I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Reading, Successful

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• Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.

  William McIlvanney

  Men, Missing, Important

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• Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Men, People

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• It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Struggle, Men

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• It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

  Voltaire

  Real, Men, Poverty

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.79, Penguin

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• I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

  Herb Alpert

  Men, Thinking, Creative

  "Jazz musician Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2013.

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• We know too much for one man to know too much.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Men, Too Much, Knows

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.85, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

  Epicurus

  Men, Natural Justice, Protect

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control of his life; one woman's grounds for insanity is another woman's ground to a dramatic shaping of self.

  Rosellen Brown

  Men, Self, Insanity

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• By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, People

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• One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Blessed, Men, Two

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• I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heaven, Chinese

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.215

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• Showrunning is not a one-man job; it's literally impossible to do for one person. I have learned the hard way now from two seasons, one with Red Widow, and this, I can't control everything. I certainly have tried, but having an incredibly strong team around you, surrounding yourself with incredibly talented people, that is the trick, and I certainly had that for the first season here of Jessica Jones.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Strong, Jobs, Team

  Source: deadline.com

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• American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Men, Hands, Leader

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

  Paul Samuelson

  Cancer, Men, Magic

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1986). “Coll Sci Pap V5”, p.929, MIT Press

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