Quotes with public-school

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  • Carroll Quigley This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joan Didion Time is the school in which we learn.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Burt Rutan To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Campbell Brown To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Rae To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
    Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bernardine Dohrn Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Gore Vidal Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Barney Frank Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Todd Palin's frequent presence in the governor's office led some in Juneau to call him the 'Shadow Governor.' But it had never been clear, at least to the public, what roles he played.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Whorf Too long has the public mind considered religion to be synonymous with priestcraft.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ban Ki-moon True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
    Source: A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blac Chyna Tyga takes King to school, I take him to school - we pretty much split our time with him down the middle. So, co-parenting isn't bad at all with Tyga.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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  • Burgess Owens Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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