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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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God helps those who help themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#help #helps #themselves #those #who

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. ↗

— Christian Marclay

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First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. ↗

— Gustav Stickley

#bare #beauty #charm #clearly #curves

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#happen #horrible #horrible things #just #things

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#himself #i #make #man #me

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do. ↗