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• These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

  James Otis

  Hero, Citizens, Patriot

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

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• Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.

  Steven Pinker

  Military, Gun, Southern

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• In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Powerful, Psychology, Logic

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• In my public life, I'm just a guy who enjoys having fun.

  Brett Ratner

  Fun, Guy, Enjoy

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  Pat Riley

  Life, Travel, Ambition

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• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Character, Culture

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• What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

  Will Self

  Feelings, Facts, Roles

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say" by Alain de Botton, AC Grayling, Susie Orbach, Paul Gilroy, Will Self, Mary Beard, Brian Cox, Lionel Shriver, James Lovelock and Lisa Jardine, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

  Cornel West

  Wall, Loneliness, Lying

  Cornel West (1998). “Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America”, G K Hall & Company

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• We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

  John Adams

  Virtue, Parliament, Humankind

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.116, UPNE

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• I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Talent, Cleanliness, Interest

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• American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

  Tony Judt

  Government, Opposites, Degrees

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• Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

  Johnny Isakson

  Real, Winning, People

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• Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

  Bernard Baruch

  Motivational, Errors, Action

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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Horizon

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

  Annie Besant

  Boys, Interesting, Training

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden, would make a great United States senator - just as I believe he has been a great attorney general. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

  Joe Biden

  Believe, Son, Office

  "Biden replacement creates blowback" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. November 24, 2008.

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• We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Needs, Cooperation, Fairness

  "Just Capital: What the 99% Really Need (Part 2)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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• The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

  Chris Christie

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, People, Kind

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• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  Barry Commoner

  Art, Law, Medicine

  "Interview with Barry Commoner" by Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Hurt, Long

  "The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century".

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• I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

  Tommy Douglas

  Mind, Want, Pigeons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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