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common man
«There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.»
«We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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common man, demands, distinguish, excellent, former, latter
«Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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best man, common good, common man, Down These Mean Streets, For any, good enough, good weather, hero, inevitability, instinct, Mean Streets, phrase, tarnished, The Best Man, unusual, weathered
«The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.»
Author: William Beveridge
(Economist, Social Reformer)
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common man, government in, races, rulers, The Object of
«When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
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common man, construction, constructions, doctor, engineer, get into, uncommon
«You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.»
«The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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aspersion, aspersions, cast on, common man, Philosophy of, resents, Strangers
«The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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Poetry
| Keywords:
common man, included, poems, poisonous, Pride and, Shakespeare