Benjamin Franklin Quotes
All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
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If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
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You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.
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All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a Dye, it would be better than by Fighting and destroying each other.
