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American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#american #connections #conservatism #continued #depends

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#happiness #i #make #marriage #marriage work

It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#beat #because #down #hard #i

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#good #good actors #great #i #i think

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#been #i #i think #life #listen

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#discontent #makes #men #poor #rich

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#either #forgotten #reading #something #soon

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

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#both #danger #displays #having #his

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#nobody #rich #who