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For Benny, it was not about him; it was about family, friends and teamwork. He was proud, yet unpretentious.


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THOMAS FRIEDMAN In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Glo...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...
MILTON FRIEDMAN The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
KINKY FRIEDMAN The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they...
MILTON FRIEDMAN And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re...
MILTON FRIEDMAN When I wrote 'The World Is Flat,' I said the world is flat. Yeah, we're all connected. F...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. I...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn'...
KINKY FRIEDMAN We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like...
KINKY FRIEDMAN William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
KINKY FRIEDMAN The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless bo...
MILTON FRIEDMAN No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
KINKY FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's friend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middl...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and ...
BRUCE FRIEDMAN If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, an...
ADENA FRIEDMAN