Public Quotes
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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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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Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
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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.
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My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I'm not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I'm 50?
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Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.
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We govern what the public think about.
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Twelve cities in three days is not a public consultation or proper public process. It is not adequate.
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The plan was to keep the guys together and away from the public, ... The last thing we wanted was another big drama.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.
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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
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It is often noted that it can be hard for democracies to fight wars because of changing public opinion.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest.
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
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I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
