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Benjamin Franklin
United States
17 Jan 1706 // 17 Apr 1790
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On Do:
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
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On Absence:
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse
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On Time:
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste
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On Action:
Never confuse motion with action
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On Necessity:
Necessity never made a good bargain
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On Money:
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one
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On Money:
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants
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On Death:
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five
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On Pleasure:
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it
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On Time:
Lost time is never found again
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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