Quotes with public-domain

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  • Sir William Blackstone The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • Oscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Hazlitt The public have neither shame or gratitude.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • John Keats The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Al Capp The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Billy Collins The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Mark Twain The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bancroft The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Oscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Penn The public must and will be served.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Barry Manilow The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Ivan Illich The public school has become the established church of secular society.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Theresa May The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Edith Sitwell The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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  • Billy Evans The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anita Loos The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Raymond Chandler The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bradley A. Smith The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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