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  • Italo Calvino Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Walter Benjamin Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • A. N. Wilson Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bart Gordon Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Birch Bayh But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Barney Frank But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barack Obama But let's remember that we're all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law; a basic respect for public order and the right to peaceful public protest.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Kerrey But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Birch Bayh But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Anita Roddick But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bob Schieffer But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Cassiodorus But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.
    Source: Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Bill Wyman But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Anthony Holden But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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