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All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.


Franklin Roosevelt

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PATRICK O'BRIAN There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.
CAROLYN JENNINGS Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
RICHARD SCHANBERGER Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.
W. H. AUDEN A public right cannot be changed by private agreement
LEGAL MAXIM All private and public hospitals have been urged to step up infection control measures and report to...
DR MARGARET CHAN All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been co...
ŞEYLA BENHABIB Truman University was also ranked No. 8 in the Midwest among all private and public institutions.
BARBARA DIXON Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
WALTER BENJAMIN Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but...
LYN NOFZIGER Any improvement of the lives of the people of this country will require an optimal functioning of or...
JAN OLSON There has been a serious violation of the law in New Garden Township. There has to have been, if pri...
JUSTIN MCCARTHY No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
LEON WIESELTIER All kids deserve an opportunity. We're not accountable for where we're born into, but we are account...
GARY GRIFFITHS People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personal...
GEOFFREY RUSH I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay...
GEORGES ST-PIERRE Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked...
LISEL MUELLER After all, in private we're all misfits.
LILY TOMLIN After all, in private we’re all misfits.
LILY TOMLIN It's all in private hands.
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HELEN THOMPSON It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But a...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
GEORGE ELIOT In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness
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FRED CARTER Anyone who serves in public office, when you have a private matter before the board, it's hands off....
JACK SPERANZA I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't hav...
WARREN BEATTY We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable...
DAVID IGE Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE A city of private lives, led in quiet resignation.
CRAIG R. WHITNEY The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public s...
HENRY HAZLITT This particular neighborhood is actually dying. We keep hearing 'public purpose' while in this case ...
REP. PRISCILLA TAYLOR Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional li...
ADRIAN EDMONDSON Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred...
HOWARD COBLE The government ended up replacing public monopolies with private monopolies by simply selling its as...
JOSEPH MUSCAT In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private
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JEREMY LIN The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, t...
ADAM COHEN I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives.
SCOTT TIPTON Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If we can't have exchanges with our friends and family, with loved ones that won't at some p...
TIMOTHY D. SNYDER I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't...
WARREN BEATTY To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
CATHERINE DENEUVE It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the ap...
MARTIN VAN BUREN Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN COVEY Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise ...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.
UNKNOWN My life style in a sense is kind of private.
MARC NEWSON I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common s...
MYRNA LOY A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
ERIC SCHLOSSER The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
RAYMOND QUENEAU Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jack...
JUSTICE ROBERT JACKSON The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives, ... The state cannot demean their e...
ANTHONY KENNEDY We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perha...
GEORGE ELIOT We're in this together. This has got to be a public-private partnership. We can't do it by ourselves...
LINTON WELLS II The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our p...
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Public intoxication will get you arrested, but private intoxication makes you an alcoholic.
AMBER LIMBAUGH Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.

Separating them is wh...
RICHIE NORTON People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to ke...
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MAARTEN ANTHONY WOLFS Morals are private. Decency is public.
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LANGSTON HUGHES I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.
JAMES BROUGHTON I would like to submit that 'private' means anything to which the public does not have access to by ...
DOUG CHRISTIE Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield ...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. A...
ROBERT REICH The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe...
WALTER LIPPMANN The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God!
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I&...
MARC JACOBS The real estate market has been an underlying source of support for private consumption. As that mar...
BRIAN DOLAN Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
UNKNOWN You should not live one way in private, another in public.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its e...
MURRAY ROTHBARD What I found is that in all of the major leaps forward that Arkansas has had over the last 20 years ...
MIKE BEEBE Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed ...
BERNARD BARUCH Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed ...
BERNARD M. BARUCH Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
ROSALIND RUSSELL The way to improve schools is to give parents real options by providing parents with full school cho...
ALLAN PARKER Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public
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DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
KEVIN MCCLOUD In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
JAMES Q. WILSON A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and p...
GREGORY NOJEIM All of the paintings belong to a private collection.
MARTHA TRASK For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 19...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT The only thing to fear is fear itself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which par...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - name...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economic...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the v...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties w...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is wheth...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Confidence....thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful prote...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If we can ''boondoggle'' ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT the first war of the 21st century.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT a poverty-ridden old age.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We can never insure 100 percent of the population against 100 percent of the hazards and vicissitude...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT We should never forge those that did not return,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT greatly impressed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It got to a point where I had to get a hair-cut or a violin
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising busi...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that is have free and independent l...
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