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Yes, I'm nervous. You'll find in time most people are. They simply learn better how to disguise it, and sometimes, if they're wise, how to… — Gregory Maguire
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to… — Martin McGuinness
Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself. — Jean Cocteau
The great corrupter of public man is the ego.... Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. — Dean Acheson
Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. — Albert Einstein
Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger… — Jeff Bridges
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could… — Thomas Sowell
The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. — Baruch Spinoza
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. — Joseph Goebbels
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his… — Benjamin Rush
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his… — William Penn
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. — Oscar Wilde
I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is… — George Eliot
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that… — Mary Pickford
Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last… — Joseph Addison
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. — Evelyn Waugh

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