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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Marriage Happiness Anniversary Man

I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.

Melissa McCarthy

Good People Feel Good Name Feel Off

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer, decentralized form of money, as durable as the Internet itself. Remember, the Internet - or DARPA, as it was originally called - was created as a fail-safe, global network with no 'single point of failure.' If one part goes down, data takes another route, and nothing is lost.

Failure Money Internet Data Remember

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.

Nature Feel Fish Know Way Image

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

Life Walk Negative Energy Face Kind

Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems obvious that photography has undergone dramatic changes in its technical, cultural, and critical composition.

World Looking Photography Landscape

When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn't. And what I've learned since my retirement, and since becoming directly involved in the world of private equity, points the way to a new career path for thousands of talented senior executives - and a new engine for value creation.

Path Value World Thought Retirement

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

Nothing Write Always Poems Wanted

I loved the idea of seeing the world through a boy's eyes.

Martin Scorsese

Eyes World Loved Seeing Boy Through

I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.

Michael Rosenbaum

School Go Never Pretty Loner Prom

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Time Finding Write Over Books How

I always have fun on the mountain, so it's always nice to go back out there and do what I love.

Love Mountain Fun Have Fun Back Go

It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are - they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it's more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.

Light Me Candid Appreciate You More

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