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Ben Fountain Quotes

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Happiness Wisdom Opportunity Time

The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

Quality Research Center Model Should

If you are looking for a hedge for potential inflation for the future and have a longer term view, then gold is still a good bet.

Good Future Gold Looking Potential

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.

Mother Dreams Chance Feel Dream Way

But celebrity really doesn't mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I've always felt that way.

Finding You Back Way Celebrity Mean

I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the shows and keep buying the records and we keep having success on country radio.

Success Music Long Country Radio

The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.

Mirror Bathroom Always Give Angle

I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.

Life Great Me End Play Know

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

God World Traveled Question Within

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

Change I Am Goal More Protest Am

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Believe You Belief Off Most Switch

When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.

Children Food Result Healthy Will

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

World India Need Global Alternative

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