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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

Topics

Self Know Steel Three Hard Things

I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it.

Robert Sheckley

Doing Selling Want Right Something

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Mountain I Am Year Go Rock High

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Laughter Universe Possibilities New

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

John Philip Sousa

Believe Inspiration Source Must Who

To the Left, Islam's anger and hatred of the West is understandable because they have legitimate grievances against us.

Anger Islam Hatred Left Against Us

What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

Father Boss Me Bad Go Run

One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.

Love Crazy She Things Come Sounds

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

Achievement Reward System Reveal

Congress is unpopular. Incumbents are unpopular.

Joshua Micah Marshall

Congress Unpopular

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

Simple Detail You Early Now Project

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.

Beauty Best Competition World Cheer

While violence is part of what it means to be part of the black diaspora in the United States, that is not all it means to be black.

Black Violence United United States

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