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I had been fighting too long and too hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The pressure of public opinion can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.
- Stephen Hawking
Prop. I. Heaven is God's house. An house of public worship is an house where God's people meet from time to time to attend on God's ordinances, and that is set apart for that and is called God's house.
- Jonathan Edwards
In 1933, one student said, "Among the public, there spread the expectation that the salvation of the German people would now come from Hitler. But in the lectures we were told that salvation comes only from Jesus Christ.
- Eric Metaxas
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.
- Paul Johnson
So many people, you know, they're just worried about, you can't say something bad about Obama, not because you actually have a strong stance against his platform, but because that makes you a racist.
- Donald Trump
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
- Andrew Jackson
A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.
- Robert Brault
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
- Robert Brault
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
- Pablo Picasso