Francis Bacon Quotes
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
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Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
