Quotes with public-address

Quotes 341 till 360 of 509.

  • Ashley Montagu The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Oscar Wilde The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean Cocteau The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Bernstein The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
    Source: An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992)
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin The first mistake in public business is going into it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Billy Barty The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
    Billy Barty
    American actor and activist (1924 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Anna Quindlen The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Junius The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Bing Gordon The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Barney Frank The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
    Source: KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Christopher Lasch The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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