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publication

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The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.

That which is published or made known; especially, any book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.

An act done in public.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. George Bernard Shaw

The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. George Bernard Shaw

I dreamed of becoming a writer. And... this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and hopefully not my last, children's book... Gloria Estefan

Publication is a self-invasion of privacy. Marshall McLuhan

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. Augusten Burroughs

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