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"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."

"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."

"It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way."

"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."

"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."

"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."

"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."

"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."
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"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."

"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."

"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."

"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."

"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."

"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."
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