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"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."
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"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."

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

"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."

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

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"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."

"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."
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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."


"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."


"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."


"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."


"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."


"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."
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