Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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I do not steal victory.
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Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.
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I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.
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Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.
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Human Felicity is produc'd not so much by great Pieces of good Fortune that seldom happen, as by little Advantages that occur every Day.
