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Alphonse de Lamartine

"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."

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"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."

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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."

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

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"When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this."

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"I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies."

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"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."

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"Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?"

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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."

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"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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"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."

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"The public has become my fairy godmother."

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"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic."
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"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
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"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."
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"Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim."
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"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
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"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
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"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
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