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  • Billy Barty The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
    Billy Barty
    American actor and activist (1924 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Benjamin The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Anna Quindlen The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Junius The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Bing Gordon The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Barney Frank The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
    KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio)
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Christopher Lasch The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Ramsey Clark The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
    Ramsey Clark
    American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Serge Daney The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Ben Bernanke The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • E. M. Forster The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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