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"The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand." »Richard Feynman
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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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"Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." »Henry David Thoreau
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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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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." »Bertrand Russell
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"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love." »Erich Fromm
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"In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith." »Friedrich Von Schlegel
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"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise." »George Steiner
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"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." »Abraham Lincoln
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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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"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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"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." »Anonymous
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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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"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." »Edgar Watson Howe
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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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"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier
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"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." »Unknown
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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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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"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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