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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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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin

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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if were fighting a war on terror. – Bill Kristol

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I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. – Neil Gaiman

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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. – Ralph W. Sockman

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I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. Were all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. – Julie Taymor

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In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. – Neal Barnard

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