Benjamin Quotes
80 quotes by 76 authors
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Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making…
— Deborah Harkness
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Benjamin Netanyahu understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for…
— Thomas Friedman
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How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine…
— Burl Ives
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when…
— Walter Isaacson
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The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new Nation to his…
— John Conyers
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An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem…
— Istvan Deak
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Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin.
— Avital Ronell
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Benjamin Murphy is the best artist since sliced bread.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?
— Kanye West
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Israel is extraordinary blessed to have [Benjamin Netanyahu] as prime minister at this pivotal time in history and so is the United States of America…
— Lou Dobbs
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Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
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At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried…
— Hannah Arendt
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Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain…
— Dave Barry
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The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the…
— Terry Eagleton
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To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill…
— Mark McCormack
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I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
— David Cross
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George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll…
— Craig Ferguson
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