“For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.”
West-östlicher Diwan, Buch des Paradies (1819)
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Quoted in "The First and the Last," 1954.
The First and the Last (1954)
Narendra Modi (2001), cited in Kumar Pankaj (2014) Namo Mantra of Narendra Modi. Chapter "Narendra Modi—A Common Man".
Narendra Modi's comment after being appointed the Chief Minister of Gujarat on 7 October 2001.
2001
Context: I did not become the Chief Minister of [Gujarat] on 7th October 2001. I have always been a 'C. M.', I am a C. M. today and will remain a C. M. tomorrow because by 'C. M.' I mean common man or Aam Aadmi.
“You see I've always been a fighter”
Music, Cross Road (1994)
Taxi
Song lyrics, Heads & Tales (1972)
Context: There was not much more for us to talk about,
Whatever we had once was gone.
So I turned my cab into the driveway,
Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawns.
And she said we must get together,
But I knew it'd never be arranged.
And she handed me twenty dollars,
For a two fifty fare, she said
"Harry, keep the change."
Well another man might have been angry,
And another man might have been hurt,
But another man never would have let her go...
I stashed the bill in my shirt.
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
April 10, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“I have been not been able to discover any character by which man can be distinguished from the ape”
Fauna Suecica (1746) as quoted by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (1999)
Context: As a natural historian according to the principles of science, up to the present time I have been not been able to discover any character by which man can be distinguished from the ape; for there are somewhere apes which are less hairy than man, erect in position, going just like him on two feet, and recalling the human species by the use they make of their hands and feet, to such an extent, that the less educated travellers have given them out as a kind of man.
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On boxing
Speech to the Labour Party conference on Britain's membership of the EEC (26 April 1975), quoted in The Times (28 April 1975), p. 4
Prime Minister