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"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" »Carl L. Becker
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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"You should not live one way in private, another in public." »Publilius Syrus
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"God enters by a private door into every individual." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Praise in public criticize in private." »Vince Lombardi
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." »Anonymous
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"Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public." »Brian K. Blackden, 1996
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"Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again." »Frank Moore Colby
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"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." »Unknown
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"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s" »Elbert Hubbard
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"The most private essence of a person's fiber can only be measured by deed; not through written tests." »Jonar Nader
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"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." »Penn Jillette
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"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself." »Mark Twain
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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college." »Lillian Smith
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before." »Luigi Barzini
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners." »Josh Billings
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"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either." »Sophocles
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"All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory." »Sir V Pritchett
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"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison
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"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." »John F. Kennedy
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"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned." »Gerald R. Ford
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