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"What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you."
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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 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."

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

"If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."

"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
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