General Public Quotes

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Scott Adams

Stupid, Underestimate, Dilbert

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In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

B. Carroll Reece

Running, Teaching, Ideas

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The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

Noam Chomsky

Fate, Decision, Influence

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A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

William Delbert Gann

Business, Successful, Opposites

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There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

Alice Bailey

Expression, Church, Restoration

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The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

Colby Mitchell Chester

Business, Men, Views

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The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are treated.

Eugene V. Debs

People, Littles, Prison

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In the early 1700's, two physicians...learned about pinkroot's efficacy from the Indians. The word soon spread to the general public, who praised this worm treatment, particularly against roundworms, for the next 200 years. Pinkroot fell into disuse in the early 1900's, simply because greedy herb dealers adulterated or even substituted shipments of true pinkroot with quantities of other plants.

Michael Savage

Dark, Years, Two

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UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Flying, Religion, Facts

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Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think.

Sid Vicious

Thinking, Giving, Wells

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The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Earl Warren

Government, Expression, May

Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

Noam Chomsky

Running, Ideas, Ignorant

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Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Chris Elliott

Television, Accepted, Wanted

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The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

Marion Nestle

Believe, Government, Labels

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We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

Elif Safak

Army, Past, Hands

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Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.

Calvin Coolidge

Selfish, Taken, Government

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Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Charles M. Vest

Goal, Research, Congress

"An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Christa McAuliffe

Jobs, Space, Done

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You may have difficulty in obtaining some of these (non-drug) therapies..because the FDA has literally pressured Congress, under the guise of protecting the public, to keep time-honoured cultural and natural therapies out of the hands of the general public. If you look at the record of the FDA, it becomes obvious they are serving interests other than yours and mine.

Robert Willner

Fda, Hands, Drug

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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Christina Romer

President, Minimum Wage, Unions

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I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public's identification something very positive.

Moshe Safdie

Strong, Thinking, Hands

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Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

Cornelius Lanczos

Art, Math, Emotional

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Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now. Education is a long-term solution. Parents and the general public must be reached also Otherwise, children and youth enrolled in globally oriented programs may find themselves in conflict with values assumed in the home. And then the educational institution frequently comes under scrutiny and must pull back.

John Goodlad

Children, Educational, Home

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I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.

Curtis Jackson

Thinking, People, Perception

"I'm not trying to save the world" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2006.

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Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

Inga Muscio

Ignorance, Color, Voice

Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.137, Seal Press

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