Top Public Quotes
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
Linus Torvalds
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Hernando Cortes
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
Walt Whitman 
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Joaquin Phoenix 
William Lyon Mackenzie King 
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You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
Chris Christie 
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It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.
Floyd Abrams
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Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.
Lucille Roybal-Allard
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
Felix Adler
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
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One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.
Julius Wellhausen
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney
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Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity.
Ron Silver
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