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He attended Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, earned a BS in psychology at Furman University, and then went on to study drama at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, where he met his wife, Francesca Buller
In a speech in San Francisco, FDR outlined the expansive role that the federal government should play in resuscitating the economy, in easing the burden of the suffering, and in insuring that all Americans had an opportunity to lead successful and rewarding lives. Johnson (Louisiana State University Press, 2005) The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (Columbia University Press, 1995) The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32 (University of Chicago Press, 1993) Franklin D
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in Twenty Volumes (English) (as Editor) The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English (English) (as Editor) The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon (English) (as Author) The Bag of Diamonds (English) (as Author) Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny (English) (as Author) The Black Bar (English) (as Author) The Black Tor: A Tale of the Reign of James the First (English) (as Author) Blind Policy (English) (as Author) Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser (English) (as Author) Brave and TrueShort stories for children by G
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If you were a servant would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Then if you are your own master be ashamed to catch yourself idle. In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and no-body pities their Case
They showed Chinese characters to people unfamiliar with Chinese ideographs and asked them to say whether they thought each character was positive or negative. Born in 1706 as the eighth of 17 children to a Massachusetts soap and candlestick maker, the chances Benjamin would go on to become a gentleman, scholar, scientist, statesman, musician, author, publisher and all-around general bad-ass were astronomically low, yet he did just that and more because he was a master of the game of personal politics
Benjamin Franklin - American Revolution - HISTORY.com
Franklin was deeply active in public affairs in his adopted city, where he helped launch a lending library, hospital and college, and garnered acclaim for his experiments with electricity, among other projects. Over several years, he worked to settle a tax dispute and other issues involving descendants of William Penn (1644-1718), the owners of the colony of Pennsylvania
Beginning with the assumption that every individual wishes, if possible, to acquire wealth and status, Franklin urges readers to adopt cooperative strategies in pursuing these aims. Consistently emphasizing the benefits of cooperative behaviors and attitudes, Franklin clearly indicates a commitment to the principles of reciprocal altruism
Benjamin Franklin Wisdom, Love, Life Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin Good, Excuses, Seldom Biography Nationality: American Type: Politician Born: January 17, 1706 Died: April 17, 1790 Links Quotes about Benjamin Franklin Find on Amazon: Benjamin Franklin Cite this Page: Citation Popular Topics Inspirational Quotes Motivational Quotes Love Quotes Funny Quotes Life Quotes Positive Quotes Wisdom Quotes Happiness Quotes More topics Top 10 Benjamin Franklin Quotes Image of the Moment Prev 1 2 3 4 .
Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I met in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name
I gave an inventory to the father, who carry'd it to a merchant; the things were sent for, the secret was to be kept till they should arrive, and in the meantime I was to get work, if I could, at the other printing-house. Afterwards, having been assur'd that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters, chiefly address'd to me, defending his theory, and denying the verity of my experiments, and of the positions deduc'd from them
His observation is especially applicable to our changing perceptions of great historical personalities, most of whom are relentlessly reinterpreted by each new generation of biographers. He's a schmoozer and a schemer, but he schmoozes and schemes to (what he perceives to be) the common good, not to his own betterment.The book does have some serious flaws
20,000 people attended the funeral of the man who was called, "the harmonious human multitude." His electric personality, however, still lights the world. He did so well that the governor of Pennsylvania promised to set him up in business for himself if young Franklin would just go to London to buy fonts and printing equipment
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