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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. -- Ronald Reagan
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? -- George Stephanopoulos
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. -- Joseph Pulitzer
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If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works. -- Clive Thompson
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. -- Xun Zi
We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed. -- Stephen L. Carter
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery -- Joseph Pulitzer
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. -- Edward Alsworth Ross

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