Benjamin Franklin National

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    “A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.”
    —French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (Sept. 1791)