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"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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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."

"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."

"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."

"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."

"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."

"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."

"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self."
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