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.
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It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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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.
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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.
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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.
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I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
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I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
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There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.
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If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.
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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
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While people are engaged in creating a totally different world, they always form vivid images of the preceding world. (p. 21)
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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.
