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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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"I was getting a lot of hassles from the public. Everybody recognized me."
"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."
"How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!"
"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public."
"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."
"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to."
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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."
"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."
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
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