"[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance,……" — Gretchen Rubin

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• I think Benjamin Bratt is the most dreamy... he's dreamy! And I love the fact that he's got this Peruvian… — Sandra Bullock
• I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three days a week. I think… — Gisele Bundchen
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on… — Herman Cain
• People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about… — Sharron Angle
• My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
• In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House,… — Jimmy Carter
• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what… — Benjamin Franklin
• [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for… — Julian Coolidge
• As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to… — M. Scott Peck
• Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular… — Kevin Mattson
• An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must… — John F. Kerry
• Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank,… — Bernard Baruch

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