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"Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." »Richard M. Nixon
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"Putain public (reference to Elizabeth I- means public whore)" »King Henry III of France
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"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property" »Thomas Jefferson
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"Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot." »Johannes Trithemius, 1488
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"We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat." »Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." »Robert F. Kennedy
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"When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings" »William C. Bagley
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"figures won't lie, but liars can figure." »Beth Knight
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"Inflation is like a woman's waistline the figure(s) is(are) always more than what is potrayed...." »Siddharth Astir
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"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."" »Jennifer Aniston
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"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline." »John Guarrine
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"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me." »Toni Morrison
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"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." »James Magary
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"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right" »Charles Monroe Schultz
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"He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any." »Mark Twain
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"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on." »Woody Allen
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"Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not." »Virgil Garnett Thomson
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"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." »Michael Jordon
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"Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out." »Unknown
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"There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice." »Stephen Mansfield
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"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger." »Cicero
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"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves." »Elias Canetti
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"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger." »Cicero
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"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size." »Virginia Woolf
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"I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks." »Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
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"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." »Ethel Barrymore
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"Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons." »Josh Sugarmann
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