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Public Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
- As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be…
- See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his…
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates…
- Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.
- I am more and more convinced that, with referenceto any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than…
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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… — Dean Acheson
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — 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… — 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… — Charles Babbage
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — 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… — Michelle Bachelet