Quotes with private

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  • Adam Clarke It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • May Sarton May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Bennie Thompson Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Faith Baldwin Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Basil Hume Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Morality is a private and costly luxury.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Rita Mae Brown Morals are private. Decency is public.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Camille Paglia My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Mcgovern No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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