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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
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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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"If you were a public official, you had to be accountable, and you had to be reachable."
"I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies."
"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."
"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."
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"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
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"The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven."
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"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
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