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Quotes About Private

The drink that characterized these new spaces quickly became a "normal" beverage: like the café itself, coffee subtly lost its foreignness. Providing what one café historian in Japan calls "dry inebriation," it was also seen as the drink of thoughtfulness, of solace, and it became associated more than any other drink with being "private in public.
~ Unknown
Full citizenship was, and to a large degree still is, predicated on keeping 'unacceptable' behavior private. This complicated relationship between the public and private is at the heart of LGBT history and life today.
~ Michael Bronski
How do I test private methods?" Many people spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get around this problem, but, as I mentioned in an earlier chapter, the real answer is that if you have the urge to test a private method, the method shouldn't be private; if making the method public bothers you, chances are, it is because it is part of a separate responsibility. It should be on another class.
~ Unknown
for Paul private belief and public confession of it - including baptism - go hand in hand.3 Both are needed for salvation.
~ Unknown
and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations
~ Michael Wolff
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Întotdeauna mi s-a p?rut detestabil de scârboas? aceast? idee atât de credibil?, potrivit c?reia o activitate militant?, generoas?, aparent dezinteresat? reprezint? compensarea unor probleme de ordin privat.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I have often been called eccentric by the detectives and one of the reasons for this is that I have a large cloth covering my desk. It hangs down on to the floor.. Underneath my desk I have several large pillows and whenever I need time out, I creep into my little private enclave to think.
~ Unknown
In May 2000 I resigned from the South African Police Service and joined a private investigation company. I felt that I had paid my dues and that it was time to invest in my own future.
~ Unknown
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I shall be as secret as the grave.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy. Yet we cannot reach happiness by consciously searching for it.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted
~ Unknown
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
~ Milton Friedman
Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.
~ Milton Friedman
because he knew well enough to draw a thick line between what was public and what was private.
~ Min Jin Lee
Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all
~ Moliere
To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
~ Moliere
The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction—the tragedy of American domestic
~ Morris Berman
Three conditions are necessary for a slave society: private, concentrated landownership, sufficient development of commodity production and markets, and unavailability of an internal labor supply.
~ Unknown
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
~ Muhammad Ali
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.
~ Muhammad Ali
The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property;
~ Murray N. Rothbard