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The public is wiser than the wisest critic. - George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic. – George Bancroft

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. – George Bancroft

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Intelligence
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. – George Bancroft

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God
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

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Beauty
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd. – Noam Chomsky

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Public

A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

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Public

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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Public

Youre not an M.P., youre a gastronomic pimp. – Aneurin Bevan

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Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

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Im always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. – Jane Goodall

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