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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.


Eric Hoffer

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
ERIC HOFFER Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST The cure for what ails us is leadership,
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
HENRY ROLLINS Sacking the president isn't the panacea for what ails the Red Cross.
PAUL LIGHT That's not what this is. This is a deliberate effort by the Marlins to correct what ails them. And w...
DAVID SAMSON Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER We are holding these hearings because one thing is certain. We can't fix the IRS without knowing wha...
WILLIAM ROTH The public high school needs to be all things to all people. We have to provide the challenge for th...
MICHAEL WELCH All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private f...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
STEVE FORBES In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that t...
TERRY EAGLETON Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The next step is to recognize that public schools all across urban America are in serious crisis, an...
CLINT BOLICK I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools ...
JIM CLYBURN Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Wome...
THOMAS HARDY Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places.
W. H. AUDEN Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ All kids deserve an opportunity. We're not accountable for where we're born into, but we are account...
GARY GRIFFITHS I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay...
GEORGES ST-PIERRE Golf in India is considered an elite sport. It is not possible for everyone to play in private cours...
JEEV MILKHA SINGH As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. A...
ROBERT REICH We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable...
DAVID IGE When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead th...
ROBERT BOLT Morals are private. Decency is public.
RITA MAE BROWN We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.
CAROLYN JENNINGS Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity.
CRISS JAMI Most people want to search private data much more often than they need to search public data.
LARRY ELLISON There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as...
MOBY I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is h...
DAVID SZE Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities a...
FRANK MOORE COLBY Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities a...
GROVER CLEVELAND Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming poo...
ALBERT SHANKER I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only ...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their p...
ELIOT SCHREFER All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they b...
T. S. ELIOT Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better...
MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
AMBROSE BIERCE It’s not the public opinion of what you are that matters, but the private personality of who you a...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR To bring the bird's population back to 1980 levels in the Southeast, some 81 million acres of habita...
BILL GIULIANO When you are in the public, you can't act as if you are private. You are only private when the door ...
BILL BRADLEY Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred...
HOWARD COBLE Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serv...
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
AMBROSE BIERCE The basic ingredient for all the ails that we are witnessing there is the continuation of the Israel...
SAEB ERAKAT I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget ...
BANKSY The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives, ... The state cannot demean their e...
ANTHONY KENNEDY Being a public company ain't fun. Retailers are fleeing for the private universe, because they speak...
RICHARD HASTINGS The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the ...
DAVID SZE As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL This points out the need to have private enforcement. It gives private citizens some recourse to pro...
HOWARD FOSTER Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and p...
GREGORY NOJEIM Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN COVEY Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN R. COVEY It's not right to think that the public's interest in protecting species should be the sole burden o...
GREG WALDEN It's interesting to note that while per subscriber valuations have fallen for public (cable companie...
CRAIG MOFFETT Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public
EDGAR WATSON HOWE All women are troublemakers who take the money their husbands need desperately for a new and better ...
STAN FREBERG The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
KEVIN MCCLOUD About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private l...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.
JOYCE MEYER The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basi...
MICKY DOLENZ What we see in Australia is that some government owned enterprises are simply more sophisticated at ...
MAARTEN ANTHONY WOLFS The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting pub...
RUDY GIULIANI To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
CATHERINE DENEUVE Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
WALTER BENJAMIN We are really in a public-private partnership as we run this country in some form or another.
DANNY WILLIAMS When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.
JIM TALENT The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private invest...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER We didn't want to create another opening-day effect, especially for private landowners who might hav...
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DANIEL GILMAN For the first time, you had novels that represented this domain of private feelings and women's live...
HELEN THOMPSON We have always wanted to fix a meeting and this has been arranged for Friday. Shell have treated the...
ANGELA KNIGHT The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth'
CLIFFORD LONGLEY Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and orange...
DENNIS MOORE We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means...
CHRISTINE PELOSI I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
MICHAEL OVITZ As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are privat...
PAWAN KALYAN No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
THOMAS E. DEWEY Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors ...
DIRK BENEDICT I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Anyone who serves in public office, when you have a private matter before the board, it's hands off....
JACK SPERANZA I have never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The law does not reach private organizations, even when they are performing public or quasi-public f...
AMANDA MARTIN Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but...
LYN NOFZIGER Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private...
CRAIG BROWN They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.
ANDREW MORTON Traditional public revenue alone won't be able to finance our transportation needs. There are billio...
GEORGE RUNNER When the private sector does a similar thing people need to voice their objections.
LUMKILE MONDI The only argument I keep hearing is you don't have the dollars to expand. Well, I'm addressing that....
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