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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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"Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it."
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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."
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"The public are not stupid."
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"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
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"A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency."
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"The public seldom forgive twice."
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"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
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"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are."
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"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
Love

"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die."
Czar

"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
Time

"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."
Family

"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
Growth

"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
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"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
Life

"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
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"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
Food
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