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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. -- Edward Tufte
Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example. -- Jon Meacham
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. -- Robert Caro
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson. -- Voltaire
See... What I felt they should have done, for our first public works project, is build a giant wall... across the entire border of Canada. Because that's where the cold air comes from. -- Lewis Black
But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand'... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature? -- Ilana Mercer
I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired. -- Ralph Nader
Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941. -- Albert Speer
There are a few obvious consequences and perhaps one subtle possibility. One obvious thing is that, to stimulate the economy, President Obama has committed to creating millions of green jobs that will leave a legacy - much as Roosevelt's public works did during the new deal. -- Denis Hayes
History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government. -- Ludwig von Mises
We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. -- Jane McGonigal
I learned in a very public setting what works and doesn't work for a healthy lifestyle. -- Michael De Luca
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. -- Robert Morley
Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing. -- Mick Cornett
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. -- Francis Bacon
Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step. -- Placido Domingo
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution. -- Rick Perlstein
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view. -- Simon Van Booy
At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success. -- William Cameron Forbes
What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real. -- Salma Hayek
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works. -- Lance Ito
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. -- Jonathan Kozol
And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works. -- Roy Barnes
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
I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you. -- Tom Verlaine
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. -- William H. Prescott
First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience. -- Eleanora Duse
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. -- Stephen Hawking
All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them. -- Lawrence Lessig
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The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake. -- George Soros
It is a public financing system that everybody knows is antiquated. It no longer works. Nobody can become president based on that system. -- Bernie Sanders
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens. -- Ludwig von Mises
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success. -- Jacques Maritain
Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience. -- Ibn Warraq
I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. -- Joseph Conrad
A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public. -- Nicolas Chamfort
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art. -- Igor Stravinsky
What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. -- Paul Krugman

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