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Tag Name "Private" (2124)

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Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.
Andrew Jackson
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Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools.
Newt Gingrich
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Oscar Wilde
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PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
Ambrose Bierce
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Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.
Noam Chomsky
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Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais
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Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.
Voltairine de Cleyre
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings
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Private Perkins is a funny little codger.
George Henry Powell
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Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
Margaret Millar
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Private choices are not private they all have public consequences...Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.
James E. Faust
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Jane Addams
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Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky public prayer is like that.
John Vianney
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well as the various forms of nonwage property income to the owners of capital. In itself, it is no more responsible for maldistribution of purchasing power than the science of bookkeeping is responsible for bankruptcy.
Louis O. Kelso
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Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
Stanley Kubrick
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
Stephen Covey
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Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.
Michael Lee-Chin
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Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a niche where either strategic investors or the public markets don't go, or don't want to go for some particular reason. I think that's going to continue to be the case going forward.
David Bonderman
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Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
Thomas Jefferson
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Private sincerity is a public welfare.
C. A. Bartol
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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
Ken Robinson
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