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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more. ↗

— Chris Frantz

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

— David Ogden Stiers

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Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

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