Quotes with private

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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Upton Sinclair The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • Sir William Blackstone The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • Bode Miller The silver medals I won in Salt Lake City didn't give me anything. Last year I set myself the goal of winning the World Cup and lining up a long series of wins. It was my private challenge.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Karl Marx The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Samuel Butler The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Eliot There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Carrie Fisher There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Morton They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
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  • Carroll Quigley This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bill Hader To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Baruch Spinoza To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Thomas Traherne To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Lewis Mumford Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Virginia Woolf Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Vita Sackville-West Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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  • Allen Ginsberg Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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