Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
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If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
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Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
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I think there must be some other life forms, even if they're microscopic.
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Li rois d'Engleterre et li sien, qui s'en venoient tout singlant, regardent et voient devers l'Escluse si grant quantité de vaissiaus que des mas ce sambloient droitement uns bos.
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
