Their Private Quotes
54 Their Private quotes by 49 unique authors
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We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to…
— Robert Reich
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The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world -…
— Frederick Lenz
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Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public…
— Mortimer Zuckerman
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Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly)…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The Linux kernel is under the GPL version 2. Not anything else. Some individual files are licensable under v3, but not the kernel in general.…
— Linus Torvalds
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And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city…
— James Harrington
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
— Eric Hoffer
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When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people…
— Taylor Swift
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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the…
— Helen Thomas
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Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world…
— Mark Twain
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AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.
— Noel Coward
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I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all…
— Laurie R. King
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Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.…
— James E. Faust
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Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly…
— Paulo Freire
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the…
— Philip K. Dick
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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives…
— Jonathan Kozol
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There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to…
— Paul Newman
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To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become…
— Margaret George
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Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country...But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special…
— Ralph Nader
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If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to…
— Hasan M. Elahi
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People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.
— Mencius
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