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Tag Name "Private" (2126)

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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 property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings
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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, 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 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 is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais
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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 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 opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.
Steve Martin
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Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
Arsene Wenger
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Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.
Henry George
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Private victories precede public victories.
Stephen Covey
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Private Perkins is a funny little codger.
George Henry Powell
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Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
Austin Ligon
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Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
Annie Dillard
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Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.
John Pilger
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Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.
John Stossel
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.
Suze Orman
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Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
Paul Broca
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Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.
R. H. Tawney
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