Quotes 321 till 340 of 484.
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The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
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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.
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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.
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The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
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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.
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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.
An A-Z of cultural terms, The Guardian (1992) -
The first mistake in public business is going into it.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
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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.
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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
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The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.
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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.
KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio) -
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
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