Quotes 261 till 280 of 484.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
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People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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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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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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