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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.


Ben Hecht

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BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
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BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY