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«Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms»
Author: Alan Harrington
| Keywords:
arrangements, attractive, flower arrangement, placing, Public place, public relations, specialists, sturdy, The Specialist, wilted
«I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.»
«I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.»
Author: Wendell Berry
| Keywords:
climbed, healing, heat, of my own, orchard, orchards, planted, Public place, Shadow of the, The Vines, vines, woods
«As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
| Keywords:
defended, discussion, guarded, Human rights, public discussion, Public place, public speaking, Public welfare, welfare
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
| Keywords:
bunch, cutting, dividend, dividends, in the first place, launch, of a sudden, owning, Presidents, Public place, public works, stock, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
cent, cheerless, coast, harbor, inch, Pacific, Pacific Coast, Pacific Ocean, Public place, public treasury, rockbound, the Pacific, The Western, Treasuries, treasury, uninviting, Western
«In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites 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.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
abilities, appearing, chimera, chimeras, choosing, confirmed, consult, eminent, employment, entered, entertained, extravagant, favorites, instructing, irrational, know the score, maintained, ministers, monarchs, persuading, placing, princes, professors, projector, projectors, proposing, public good, Public place, qualified, schemes, School of, services, the Monarch, The school
«Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this,»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
avoided, for good, in the public eye, notwithstanding, ostentation, placed, praiseworthy, public eye, Public place, The Public Eye, witnesses
«No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affords, conviction, library, public libraries, public library, Public place, striking, vanity
«I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Economics
| Keywords:
dangers, debt, economy, feared, public debt, Public place, Republican
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