#common man

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common. ↗

— Angus Wilson

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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. ↗

— George Santayana

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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. ↗

— Norman Angell

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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. ↗

— William Beveridge

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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. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least. ↗

— Vince McMahon

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And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able to write these plays. ↗

— Mark Rylance

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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. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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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. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

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The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view. ↗

— Ang Lee

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