Benjamin Franklin Quotes
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
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The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.
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I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.
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He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.
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The thing we long for, that we areFor one transcendent moment.
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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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A penny saved is a penny got.
