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Benjamin Franklin Quotes

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Character Bird Eagle Wish Bad Moral

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

Jenson Button

Car Fight Win Pressure You Race

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

John Irving

Book Think You Sometimes Kind Where

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Robert Metcalfe

Good Persuasion Authority Resources

Most organizations don't fall apart as a result of one big blow. Most relationships don't end because of one grand argument. Most lives don't fall to pieces due to one sad event. No, I suggest to you that sustained failure happens as the consequence of small, daily acts of neglect that stack up over time to lead to a blow up - and break down.

Robin S. Sharma

Failure Daily Sad Time Small End

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Michel de Montaigne

Good Confidence Goodness Own Proof

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

Michael Moore

Feel You Bad Feeling Leave Off

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear Women Alone History Men Free

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

Don Lemon

History American Country Build

Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

Douglas Rushkoff

Computers Adapt Ability Brains Just

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

Dennis Brown

Feel You Know Way Groove Had

You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.

Chris Gardner

Great Fun People Having Fun Have Fun

My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it.

Chuck Liddell

Style Keep Going Fight Winning End