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"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."

"You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all."

"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."

"Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."

"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."

"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."

"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."

"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

"Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming."

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

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."
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