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

"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."

"If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable."

"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."

"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."

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

"How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage."

"I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge."

"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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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."


"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."


"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."


"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."
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