Francis Bacon Quotes
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
Adam Grant
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
Karen Allen
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
Harry Browne
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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
Barbara Demick
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Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
Tavi Gevinson
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people.
Danielle Steel
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With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.
Alain Ducasse
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I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
Jane Haddam
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
