Quotes 281 till 300 of 509.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
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Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury.
Hoover Off the Record (1934) door Theodore G. Joslin -
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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