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I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.


Ben Katchor

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BEN JONSON The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ...
BEN MANSKI Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dange...
BEN MANSKI The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, t...
BEN OKRI We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alter...
BEN OKRI The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.
BEN SWEET Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
BEN HOROWITZ I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce L...
BEN JONSON