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
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Hernando Cortes
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
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
Walter Lippmann 
Robert Reich 
Bea Arthur 
Samuel Alito 
Ernestine Rose 
Roger Wicker 
James W. Fulbright 
Meg Whitman 
Tony Visconti 
Iyad Allawi 
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I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.
Ed Case 
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I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
Nathan Deal
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
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I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
Tom Hicks
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You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
Charlotte Rae
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Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.
Curt Flood
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But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini
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