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The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
Martin Van Buren
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
Chester A. Arthur
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph Campbell
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
Portia de Rossi
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
Billie Jean King
Joseph Stiglitz 
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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
Robert B. Laughlin 
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One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
Larry Elder
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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
William Godwin
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It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
Trevor Dunn
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During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.
Lawrence R. Klein
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
Francesca Annis
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But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
Frances Conroy
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