There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.
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Public opinion in this country is everything.
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
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I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
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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.
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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.
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If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
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