Public Quotes
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Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Michael Moss
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Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
Nicolas Gomez Davila
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
Ezra Pound
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You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.
David Oakes
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I ran through the manuscript in the space of a day, much as one might pick compulsively at a box of chocolates. It was simply too provocative to put down. Has the potential of being highly influential inside the field and among an informed public.
Baruch Halpern
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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
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A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.
William Peter Hamilton
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What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.
Esther Williams
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I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.
Rupert Friend
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
Melissa Etheridge
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I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
Joyce DiDonato
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The clarity of that message to the public, to stay home and save lives and protect the NHS is too important for us to take that risk.
Nicola Sturgeon
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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.
Kanan Makiya
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Public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.
Winifred Holtby
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Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.
Nina Totenberg
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The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.
Honore de Balzac
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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.
Tony Abbott
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The public must and will be served.
William Penn
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master. Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
Allan Pease
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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
Curtis W. Fentress
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Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth
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The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
Marilyn Monroe