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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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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."

"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."

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

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."

"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."

"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."

"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."

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

"Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory."
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"The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world."


"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."


"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."


"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."


"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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