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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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"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."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."
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"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library."
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"But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am."
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"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."
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"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."
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"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."
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"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
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"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money

"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
Virtue

"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
Love

"It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh."
People

"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings."
Control

"No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living."
Life

"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
Work

"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
Prose

"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
Thinking

"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
Public
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