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  • Oscar Wilde By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Campbell Brown By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brit Morin By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Francis Bacon Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bob Keeshan Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
    Source: As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007)
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Robert Bresson Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Ayn Rand Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bill de Blasio Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Karl Marx Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Andrew Grove Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bob Woodward Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.'
    Source: Democracy the best revenge, says Bilawal, Dawn (Internet). December 31, 2007/Zilhaj 20, 1428.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Beth Simone Noveck Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • John Keats Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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