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  • Oscar Wilde Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Agnes Macphail Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Ben Affleck My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Betty Parsons My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Alvin Adams My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Joseph Campbell Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Buzz Aldrin NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Henry Louis Mencken No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas à Kempis No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Robert Warshow Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
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  • Bob Sheppard Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.
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  • Anthony Holden Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William Blake Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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