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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. — Dean Acheson
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great… — Paul Auster
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that… — Neil Armstrong
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed… — Chester A. Arthur
Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is… — Julian Assange
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any… — Charles Babbage
It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it… — Charles Babbage
Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need… — Jensen Ackles
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on… — Michelle Bachelet
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. — Francis Bacon
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. — Lord Acton
My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly. — Joan Baez
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. — Alvin Adams
I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know… — Josephine Baker
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. — Russell Baker
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to… — Russell Baker
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… — Russell Baker

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