Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

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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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

Jim Bishop

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Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.

John Gray

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My dad would come to pick me up from high school in a beaver-skin cap, big gloves, his parka and everything. It was so funny to see him show up - his beard all frozen from being out with the dogs.

John Gourley

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Before the web and these highly focused entities, journalists got to decide what was important to tell their audience and educated their readers. Now, journalists have to try and understand what their consumer actually wants to read and what angle they are looking for in order to keep audiences engaged in a highly competitive world.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

Matthew Desmond

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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Pople

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The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

Shirley MacLaine

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Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Travis Bradberry

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Both on an individual and a national scale, debt imprisons.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

Luis de Guindos

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So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

Chris Carter

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Maybe I'll get into a Bond film... I always thought I'd be a Bond Girl when I was young.

Anne Reid

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