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Quote Left If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. Quote Right
Quote Left Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horse shit in the public park. Quote Right
Quote Left In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but rarely or never to do all. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. Those worthy of assistance, except in rare cases, seldom require assistance. The really valuable men of the race never do, except in case of accident or sudden change. Every one has, of course, cases of individuals brought to his own knowledge where temporary assistance can do genuine good, and these he will not overlook. But the amount which can be wisely given by the individual for individuals is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances connected with each. He is the only true reformer who is as care ful and as anxious not to aid the unworthy as he is to aid the worthy, and, perhaps, even more so, for in almsgiving more injury is probably done by rewarding vice than by relieving virtue. The rich man is thus almost restricted to following the examples of...others, who know that the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise: free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind; works of art, certain to give pleasure and improve the public taste; and public institutions of various kinds, which will improve the general condition of the people; in this manner returning their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Quote Right
Quote Left The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert (speak out) upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes. Quote Right
Quote Left The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility. Quote Right
Quote Left Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs. Quote Right
Quote Left A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Quote Right
Quote Left He who was Goodness, Gentleness, And Dignity is free, Translates to public Love Old private charity. Quote Right
Quote Left Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation. Quote Right
Quote Left The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day. Quote Right
Quote Left Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? I'd be poor and I'd probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying Quote Right
Quote Left The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge. Quote Right
Quote Left The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Quote Right
Quote Left OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or pointed out, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The politicians have us casting votes for them based on issues like lipsticked pigs, teen pregnancy, duplicitous social class polarization, who is the truer American, who is a homosexual, race and religion etc. while they steal us blind and violate the Public Trust. (Term is based on this scene from The Wizard of Oz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.squidoo.com%2FUSA_VOTERS_VOTE_NO_TO_GOVERNMENT_CORRUPTION_THIS_ELECTION&feature=player_embedded Quote Right
Quote Left I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. Quote Right
Quote Left In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) Quote Right
Quote Left The infrastructure doesn't exist for the government to share data with itself, particularly within different levels of government. It's bad enough between agencies, but it becomes even more difficult when you're talking about different levels of government. Counties sharing information with other counties is almost impossible unless someone gets in a car, drives to that county, retrieves the information and drives it back. What the private sector does very well is build the infrastructure which allows that information, which is public, to flow freely across jurisdictional and geographical lines. That's the benefit that the private sector has brought to this process. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true. Quote Right
Quote Left 'A medical myth is an aggressive defensive device used by orthodox medicine to retain the status quo and impede progress in the introduction of new and valuable therapies. ....The myth originates in some inadequate sloppy in vitro or animal experimental work from which unwarranted broad conclusions are drawn as to possible effects on man. There is never any hard human evidence involved, just pure speculation. The second step is that the news media pick it up and being more interested in sensationalism than in facts, magnify these speculations and terrify a gullible public. Further repetition of these unwarranted conclusions by the medical press gives them the status of medical dogma to be quoted and requoted.'-- Quote Right
Quote Left Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Funny Quote Right
Quote Left Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Quote Right
Quote Left As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point. Quote Right
Quote Left The longer you stay in the mall, the longer your children will have to listen to holiday songs on the mall public-address system, and many of these songs can damage children emotionally. For example: 'Frosty the Snowman' is about a snowman who befriends some children, plays with them until they learn to love him, then melts. Quote Right
Quote Left A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.' Quote Right
Quote Left One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Quote Right
Quote Left It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the government economically administered, because this bounds the right of the government to extract tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow-citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity. Quote Right
Quote Left The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distress. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public. This is a natural consequence of what has been said before. Between the workman and the master there are frequent relations, but no real association. I am of the opinion, on the whole, that the manufacturing aristocracy which is growing up under our eyes is one of the harshest that ever existed in the world; but at the same time it is one of the most confined and least dangerous. Nevertheless, the friends of democracy should keep their eyes anxiously fixed in this direction; for if ever a permanent inequality of conditions and aristocracy again penetrates into the world, it may be predicted that this is the gate by which they will enter. Quote Right
Quote Left Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. Quote Right
Quote Left There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. Quote Right
Quote Left Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Quote Right
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Quote Left The thought process of elected officials is public property. Quote Right
Quote Left Public servants are only as good as the demands that are placed on them. Quote Right
Quote Left A public servant should never defend anything other than the public they serve. Quote Right
Quote Left Ever notice when a Republican speaks it's more a revelation of character than anything else? Quote Right
Quote Left " Corporations have been enthroned...An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people...until wealth is aggregated in a few hands...and the republic is destroyed ". *Written by a man 160 yrs. ago, prophetic, wouldn't you say... Abraham Lincoln Quote Right
Quote Left The impression a public servant gives is their fault. Quote Right
Quote Left Zafar Khan judges ki bhi secretly audio videos record karta hai or waqt anay par public me leak kar daita so be careful your cell phone your smart phone is recording. Quote Right
Quote Left Zafar Bhai ko chahiye public ko injection lagwa kar khatam kar day aur sab say pehlay do teka khud ko lagway kyun Kay sab say bara zehni mareez ye khud hai. Quote Right
Quote Left If you are a public servant the majority rules; if you are a lawyer, your client does. Quote Right
Quote Left Awam ki madad say logon ki madad say Public ki madad say Zafar dramay baziyan karta hai counselling ka film chalata hai Quote Right
Quote Left Awam ki nafsiyaat ka alam Kuch youn HOTA hai.Public jis shaks ki andhi taqleed Karti hai us ki burayon ko bhi achayon ki Nazar say dekhti hai aur jis ko dislike Karti hai us ki achayon ko bhi bura gardanti,bura janti,aur bura maanti hai. Quote Right
Quote Left Agencies and Police officers are corrupt and Public Chutya. Quote Right
Quote Left Agencies,Police aur Public ki madad say underworld don zafar supari killer apna network chalata hai. Quote Right
Quote Left zafar supari killer is aqua tofana and he plays wehmi nafsiati pagal nashai drink, and drugs inejction game by the help of Public and Police officers. Quote Right
Quote Left Zafar SUPARI killer Police aur Public ki madad say mujhay marwanay kay intezar me hai jab kay dafa 324 aur dafa 302 zafar supari killer kay intezar me hai.DON babu kab tak bhago gay Qanoon kay haath baray lambay hotay hain..KEEP IN MIND... Quote Right
Quote Left Either truth or public sentiment choice is yours.. Quote Right
Quote Left Either truth or Public Sentiment choice is yours.. Quote Right
Quote Left If there is a snake in your garden it's probably Republican. Quote Right
Quote Left College is just a public school for grown ups Quote Right
Quote Left William Blake had no public, and yet he’s still read. His critics are dead. ('A Passing Observation about Thinking Outside the Box' on the role of poets in living beyond death, by Michael R. Burch) Quote Right
Quote Left To spot a Republican in a room full of devils simply look for the retractable horns. Quote Right
Quote Left Republicans don't walk they slither. Quote Right
Quote Left A Republican is like a cat; if they like you it's probably because you feed them. Quote Right
Quote Left The hypocrisy of the Democratic Party comes to the knees while the hypocrisy of the Republican Party is orbiting Venus. Quote Right
Quote Left Wrong doers are not pleased with the truth about their deeds, they want good/positive publicity about their bad/negative acts Quote Right
Quote Left If a genius creates a masterpiece in his solitude, his goal has been accomplished regardless of how the public acclaims it as such. Quote Right
Quote Left Quatro julgamentos. Na vida ou nos negócios, somos julgados por quatro tribunais. Cada um desses tribunais pode nos louvar ou condenar. Tribunal da natureza, o das leis, os da própria consciência e de opinião publica. Já que nunca se escapa de todos os tribunais é bom — para superar positivamente a todos os julgamentos - desenvolver a paciência conosco, reconhecer pontos fortes e fracos, fazer bom uso de todas as oportunidades e fazer o nosso melhor em todas as tarefas que empreendemos. Quote Right
Quote Left Public service should be a shared and limited commodity with regard to long term appointments. Quote Right
Quote Left what is truth and what is lie? What is real and what is falsity? Truth is one's perception of the current reality and one that is usually beyond reproach, while lie is a variation of one's perception of reality that by the general public is seen as wrong. Real in my oppinion is something ur senses or mind can see or touch, while falsity is a trick of one's reality. Quote Right
Quote Left Those who think it was abolished with slavery are in denial, we experience it in the Bus, school, at work, in preference and choice, in continued ridicule, by suspicion and distrust, by avoidance, Just that we who are deprived have developed a tough skin and a better knowledge to avoid the sentiment and publicity. Quote Right
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