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“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.”
Albert Einstein
“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
Will Rogers
“It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.”
Dave Barry
“He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience”
Alexander Gregg
“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
Margaret Thatcher
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself”
Salvador Dalí
“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
Groucho Marx
“The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
