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Public Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I…
- Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
- Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for…
- A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public…
- I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
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- 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