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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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I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule. ↗

— Dennis Franz

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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University. ↗

— George Stigler

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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

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I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

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Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. ↗

— Martin Freeman

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I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

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Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. ↗

— Anna Freud

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