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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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. – Benjamin Franklin

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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. – William Hazlitt

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respect

I want to say a little something thats long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end. – Adam Yauch

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No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised. – Roger Goodell

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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. – Kenneth Robert Livingstone

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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. – Paul Cezanne

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. – Washington Irving

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. – Proverb

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I dont really go down one path. I wouldnt call myself a Buddhist, or a Catholic or a Christian or a Muslim, or Jewish. I couldnt put myself into any organized faith. – Dean Cain

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