Public Quotes
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The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.
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They've just gone berserk. It's in the public interest to know where these large amounts of money are coming from.
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What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.
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In politics, a conflict only exists in public; otherwise it is merely a potential for conflict, which we can never be certain exists or will materialize.
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Hillary Clinton did not represent, on a lot of policy matters, what the American public perceived to be as a change.
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Public health is being sacrificed to keep us on the road.
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if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
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If I am successful, I see this as the last chapter in my public service to Oregon.
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Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous disorder and a disastrous cleavage, because the contrariety of the appetites to be satisfied will prevent the satisfaction of any single one. Clearly, then, the effect of the pursuit of private ends under cover of the public good will be worse if there are many with a hand in power than if there is only one
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I often feel lonely, but I never do while I am on stage… The public is my drug.
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It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize marijuana no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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...if you're going to waste an opportunity, there are a few important things to remember. Do it in style. Do it in public. And, above all, do it in Manchester.
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The public never is independently responsive to news.
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We all have our ambassador that we send forward into the world. We all have people we are varying degrees of real with. There's a public face we all wear. As I get older and more comfortable in my skin, I am trying to combine the two so the real me is there all the time.
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People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of dealing with the public. This is something that can't be taught in a book. If they can produce after they've won over the public. If you can live up to your ballyhoo, you've got it made.
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The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
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I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
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Brexit means Brexit.The public made their verdict.
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Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.
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We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.
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I told Bill Gates I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow.
