Benjamin Franklin National

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    “And with the self-same weapon, too!”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “That which resembles most living one’s life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

    “Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
    —Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)