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And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. ↗

— Anne Frank

#any #bad #becoming #could #finally

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#beach #black #black hole #bones #book

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#average people #bailouts #billionaires #crisis #during

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#church #definitely #know #me #natural

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#better man #every #find #man #neighbors

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#after #bad #bad habits #determined #good

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#find #happiness #man #marriage #most

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everything #fine #laughs #say #she

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much. ↗

— Missy Franklin

#article #because #finds #focus #fun