Francis Bacon Quotes
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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Truth-tellers who expect others to believe them tend to speak naturally and un-self-consciously. But if they don't expect to be believed, they may try too hard to seem honest. Unfortunately, the result makes them sound less believable. Obviously, then, not every oddly phrased statement is a lie.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This, in my case, would be hopeless. In fact, it is said that I have no style at all, but that doesn't matter. I just go on doing, as they say, my thing. I believe this takes a certain courage.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God's earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself.
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All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.
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The thought of me wanting to act was not an option when I was growing up, so I was getting my teaching credential.
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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I'm nothing without God.
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Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
