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| Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. |
| by Rosalind Russel |
| Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation. |
| by Charles E. Hughes |
| A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. |
| by Chinese Proverb |
| How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog! |
| by Emily Dickinson |
| For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. |
| by St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. |
| by Horace |
| No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
| by H.L. Mencken |
| The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it. |
| by Voltaire |
| I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. |
| by William Cowper |
| Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition. |
| by Gaius Sallustius Crispus |
| A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions. |
| by Dianne Feinstein |
| A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insis tupon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten. |
| by John F. Kennedy |
| Each person has the right to take part in the management of public affairs in his country, provided he has prior experience, a will to succeed, a college degree, influential parents, good looks, a resume, two 3X4 snapshots, and a good tax record. |
| by Carlos Eduardo Novaes |
| There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate who they are accustomed to look down upon. |
| by John Stuart Mill |
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