“Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.” MenHeavenGrowsMastersDependsWeaknessServantOne ManAssistance Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems
“Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.” PeopleMenBelieveCharacterDealsDependsHigherExtraordinaryOne ManExaggerationExaggerated Book:The Sayings of Doctor Johnson Source: The Sayings of Doctor Johnson
“Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.” IfsMenWritingHumansCharacterFallSocialComedyGroupsWorstDependsEgoBehaviorTragedyImpulseOne ManVersusFoeWirePitsSocial LifeMassage Author:Rita Mae Brown
“Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.” MenDependsEnterpriseOne ManSuccess Or Failure Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“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.” MenProgressMagicEconomicDependsGood ThingsCancerProfitOne ManAnother ManEconomic SystemsElixir Book:Coll Sci Pap V5 Source: Coll Sci Pap V5
“If [Bashar] Assad himself could save this whole process by saying, "I will engage in a managed transition where we all work together to stabilize the government, save the institutions of government, and turn on ISIL and preserve Syria." That could happen. It all depends on one man, and Russia and Iran should not be so stubborn here that they tie this whole thing up simply because of one person.” IfsMenShouldPersonsWholeGovernmentHappensTogetherTurnsProcessDependsInstitutionsRussiaPreservesTiesWorking TogetherIranOne ManTransitionSyriaStubbornTurn-onAssadIsil Author:John F. Kerry