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 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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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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I was nine full months In the womb of Ceridwen. Before that I was Gwion, But now I am Taliesin.
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I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.
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Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.
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Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
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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.
