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Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.


Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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The Truth of Sign is Simple.
Sign Word is one but meaning are different.
s...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK