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"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
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"The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper."

"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is."

"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."

"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."

"Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions."

"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."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."

"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."

"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."

"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."

"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
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