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«Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.»
Author: Susan B. Anthony
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advocates, avow, avowed, bring about, bring to bear, casting, cautious, despised, earnest, estimation, estimations, in earnest, privately, publicly, reform, Social reform, standards, sympathies
«Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.»
«The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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Federal, federal government, governments, handled, last resort, local, local government, organizations, privately, program, resort, The Federal, The Last Resort, voluntary
«If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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aversion, aversions, feigning, humiliation, incompetent, in public, namely, orders, performs, privately, ritual, solemnly, sympathy, unhesitatingly
«If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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anarchist, anarchists, an anarchist, privately, superfluous
«And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: / For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.»
«And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.»
«Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me? / And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.»
«Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly»
Author: Publilius Syrus
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admonish, admonished, admonishing, openly, privately
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