Public Quotes
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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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I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.
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Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession required an infinite capacity for cautious, contemplative thought.
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I have come East to find what the public likes.
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I come from the showbiz side of things. As I say, my father was a tap dancer. You do everything you can to entertain the public.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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I pledge allegiance to the frog of the United States of America and to the wee public for witches hands one Asian, under God, in the vestibule with little tea and just rice for all.
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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.
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We have never stopped talking about adequate public facilities but there has never been anything concrete done.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
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The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.
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Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
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There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults
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If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
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If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
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It's a public health concern.
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I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.
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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
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In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
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All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it.
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As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing. And we could make a claim that the toll taken on the public health by a poor diet rivals that taken by tobacco.
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I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.
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While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
