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One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.
Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for theyare impediments to great enterprises, eitherof virtue or mischief.Certainly thebest works, and ofgreatest meritfor thepublic, haveproceededfromthe unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Film art has a greater influence on the minds of the general public than any other art.
There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
When a public man lays his hand on his heart and declares that his conduct needs no apology, the audience hastens to put up its umbrellas against the particularly severe downpour of apologies in store for it. I won't give the customary warning. My conduct shrieks aloud for apology, and you are in for a thorough drenching.
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
And because I was a poet, and because the public praised me, With their critical deductions for the modern writer's fault; I could sit at rich men's tables,though the courtesies that raise me, Still suggested clear between us, the pale spectrum of the salt.
Well,British Public, ye who like me not, (God love you!)
It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, at any time.
I found that incredible thing, a public.
Le public ne sait pas toujours de sirer le vrai. Thepublicdoesnot alwaysknowhow todesirethetruth.
Le ro" l e d'un auteur est un ro" le assez vain; c'est celui d'un homme qui se croit en e tat de donner des le c° ons au public. Et le ro" le du critique? Il est bien plus vain encore; c'est celui d'un homme qui se croit en e tat de donner des le c° ons a' celui qui se croit en e tat d'en donner au public. Therole oftheauthor isvain enough; it isthat of a person who considers himself able to give lessons to the public. And the role of the critic? It is vainer still; it is that of a person who considers himself able to give lessons to he who considers himself able to give them to the public.
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Thepublic has always expectedmetobea playboyanda decent chap never lets his public down.
I was not meant for the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here running people down is considered sport. 332
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all theyare. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.
Poetryisnotanexpressionofthepartyline.It'sthattimeof night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
It is not easy nowadays to remember anything so contrary to all appearances as that officials are the servants of the public; and the official must try not to foster the illusion that it is the other way round.
If the British public falls for this, I say that it will be stark, staring bonkers.
The public doesn't want new music: the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
On a voulu, a' tort, faire de la bourgeoisie une classe. La bourgeoisie est tout simplement la portion contente e du peuple. Le bourgeois, c'est l'homme qui a maintenant le temps de s'asseoir.Une chaise n'est pas une caste. Humboldt Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
It might have been supposed that competition between expert professionals, possessing judgement and knowledge beyond that of the average private investor, would correct the vagaries of the ignorant individual left to himself. It happens, however, that the energies and skills of the professional investor and speculator are mainly occupied elsewhere. For most of these persons are, in fact, largely concerned, not with making superior long-term forecasts of the probable yield on an investment over its whole life, but with foreseeing changes in the conventional bias of valuation a short time ahead of the general public This battle of wits to anticipate the basis of conventional valuation a few months hence, rather than the prospective yield of an investment over a long term of years, does not even require gulls amongst the public to feed the maws of the professional; it can be played by professionals amongst themselves.
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.
Given that the deepest problem with the US economy is slow productivity growth, it is difficult to argue for tax increasesthat might reduceincentives Thereseemsto Kuhn be a public consensus that Donald Trump is the price of progress.
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
Supposing the Press in order, the people in their right wits, and news or no news to be the question, a Public Mercury should not have my Vote, because I think it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not onlyan itch but a kind of colourable right to be meddling with the government.
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
It is this tendency to play with manic enthusiasm on every possible occasion that distinguishes the amateur jazz musician from the professional, often to the public detriment of the latter, who are regarded as snootyand unfriendly.
We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendencyamong landlords and persons of property tobuild,toimproveand beautify theirgrounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to deaththose citizens or groups who question that status.
He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn.
That grounded maxim So rife and celebrated in the mouths Of wisest men; that to the public good Private respects must yield.
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work: I merely inflict myself on the public.
'New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.
Put your brilliant mind to work fordresses for public appearancesthat I would wear if Jack were President of France.
Died some, pro patria, non'dulce'non'et decor' walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving came home, home to a lie, home to many deceits home to old lies and new infamy; usuryage-old and age-thick and liars in public places.
We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
The general public has long beendivided intotwo parts: thosewho think that science candoanything, and those who are afraid that it will.
If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, freeto change, freeto be a chameleon, freetobe an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people.Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked.No, we poetshavetogo naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public allow them to do. 778
Rentacrowd Ltdthe enterprising firm that supplies crowds for all occasions, and has done so much to keep progressive causes in the public eye.
People ofthesametradeseldommeettogether, evenfor merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracyagainst the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Every individualintends only his own gain, and he is in this as in many other cases led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good.
The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend.
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.
One can scarcely imagine a speaker at a meeting of a county medical society discussing the possible elimination of some disease by public health measures, and then qualifying his observations by the statement that many practitioners make a living out of treating the disease in question; and that unless the physicians are vigilant to prevent the adoption of such measures, this source of business will be taken from them.Yet speakers at barassociationmeetings arefrequently heard tomake similar observations about the effect of proposed reforms.
These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
Of all journals, and of all writers, those will obtain the largest measure of public support who have told the truth most constantly and most fearlessly.
La presse exerce encore un immense pouvoir en Ame rique. Elle fait circuler la vie politique dans toutes les portions de ce vaste territoire. C'est elle dont l'½il toujours ouvert met sans cesse a' nu les secrets ressorts de la politique, et force les hommes publics a' venir tour a' tour compara|"tre devant le tribunal de l'opinion. C'est elle qui rallie les inte re" ts autour de certaines doctrines et formule le symbole des partis; c'est par elle que ceux-ci se parlent sans se voir, s'entendent sans e" tre mis en contact. The presshas enormous power in America.It isthe press that circulates political life through all parts of this vast territory. Its eye is always open, and making known the secret springs of politics, thus forcing public men to appear before the tribunal of public opinion. It is the press which rallies the interests of the community round certain principles and forms the creed of different parties. Through the press these parties can speak to each other without seeing each other, can listenwithout meeting.
Un journal est un conseiller qu'on n'a pas besoin d'aller chercher, mais qui se pre sente de lui-me" me et qui vous parle tous les jours et brie' vement de l'affaire commune, sans vous de ranger de vos affaires particulie' res. A newspaper is an adviser whom one does not need to seek out, but one who comes of his own accord and speaks to you every day, briefly, of public affairs, without disturbing you from your own.
Un poe' me n'est jamais acheve c'est toujours un accident qui le termine, c'est-a' -dire qui le donne au public. A poem is never finished; it is always an accident that puts a stop to it, that gives it to the public.
He speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting.
We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
[Alexander Hamilton] smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.
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