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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
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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."

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

"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."

"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."

"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."

"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."

"They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished."

"To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up."

"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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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."

"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."

"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."
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