#ben

Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters - having held out so long against the incumbent - are by nature looking for change. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #break #challenger #change #close

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#dust #injuries #marble #write

Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#any #anywhere #because #benefit #concert

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. ↗

— David Friedman

#children #direct #duke #every #hospital

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bennett #patron #patron saint #saint #them

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#benefit #both #central #exchange #fact

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

#anywhere #beneficiaries #big #constituencies #farmers

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#comes #consuming #destruction #either #enabling

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being