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  • William Hazlitt Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Walt Whitman O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Albert Einstein Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Anita Loos On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Henderson On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Noam Chomsky On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alfred de Vigny One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Bryan Callen One of the beautiful things about podcasting is that I'm not beholding to some public entity.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Anna Lindh One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bobby Scott One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Curtis Carlson Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Hannah Arendt Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • William Shakespeare Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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