Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Jessamyn West

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There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.

Angela Duckworth

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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

Michael Cunningham

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The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Steve Jurvetson

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When I was 14, I spent a huge amount of time on the Internet, but not the Internet we know today. It was 1994, so while the World Wide Web existed, it wasn't generally accessible. Prodigy and CompuServe were popular, and AOL was on the rise, but I didn't have access to the web, and no one I knew had access to the web.

Robin Sloan

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Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Monica Johnson

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I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do.

Missy Elliott

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When I got a part in 'All American Girl,' in 1994, I remember thinking, 'Now I have a series, I'm not going to need to do standup,' but every night I'd go out afterward and get onstage somewhere.

Judy Gold

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We welcome Donald Trump at 'Hamilton,' absolutely.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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Nowadays it would be reasonable to have an annual world championship.

Boris Spassky

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If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

Bob Ross

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Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

Apolo Ohno

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