Quotes with public-school

Quotes 581 till 600 of 780.

  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Carlisle Floyd The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Abraham Lincoln The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aaron Klug The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Campbell The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
    Thomas Campbell
    Scottish poet (1777 - 1844)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Abbe Pierre The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Butler The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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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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