Quotes 261 till 280 of 491.
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
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Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
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Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
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People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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