Quote by Benjamin Franklin
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. – Benjamin Franklin

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We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. – Benjamin Franklin

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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. – Benjamin Franklin

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Theres one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – Im going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me. – Joe Biden

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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other – in balance with it… The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. – Barbara Deming

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People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. Thats how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes. – Terry Bradshaw

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Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president. – Eliot Spitzer

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer

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Getting along with men isnt whats truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. – Phyllis McGinley

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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like Im a flesh-eating virus. – Jerry Saltz

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. – e. e. cummings

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