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Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. – George Gallup
Pool of Shallow Waters – Ashley Dean Mair
Poor are poor because rich are rich. – B. J. Gupta
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. – Sidney Madwed
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. – Madonna
Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States. – Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. – Flannery O'Connor
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. – George Bernard Shaw
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. – John Stuart Mill
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. – Karol Newlin
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness. – William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered. – Oscar Wilde
Popularity It is glory's small change. – Victor Hugo
Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.) – Caspar de Aguilar
Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers. – Dejan Stojanovic
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
Possession is eleven points in the law. – Colley Cibber
Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility. – Dejan Stojanovic
Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution. – Dejan Stojanovic
Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid) – Virgil
Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. – Charles Krauthammer
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. – Heywood Broun
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. – Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924
Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. – Linda Wells

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