Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
– Allen Ginsberg
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- When you have no real power, go public — really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- When you have no real power, go public-”really public. The public is where the real power is. – Elizabeth Warren
- You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak yourdespair and let it lead you back to your truth. – Rachel C Weingarten
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- America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. – Allen Ginsberg
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- We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. – Plato
- Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all. – Madeline Hunter
- Lord, speak not what I am wanting to hear, but speak what you want to say. For what you say, is truly what I need to hear. – Elias Tan JS
- When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win. – Morgan Carroll
- To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one. – Donna Freitas
- … gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual-˜s private choice. – GA Hauser
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- Public success flourishes when we uphold private order. – Shannon Tanner
- Prayer in private results in boldness in public. – Edwin Louis Cole
- Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying. – EM Bounds
- Leadership must come from all of us — the private, public, and civil sectors. – Eric Lowitt
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- Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego. – Richie Norton
- While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces. – Herman E Daly
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