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  • Oscar Wilde The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Source: Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Anthony Holden The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Albrecht Durer The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Noam Chomsky The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The basis of effective government if public confidence.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Angela Carter The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Albert J. Nock The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Robert Frost The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan 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.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Algernon Sydney The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Oscar Wilde The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Amartya Sen The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Seth Godin The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
    Seth Godin
    American author and business executive (1960 - )
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  • Bud Grant The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Tom Bodett The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
    Tom Bodett
    American writer and actor (1955 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu 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.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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