Francis Bacon Quotes
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'
Rachel Bloom
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After a post-Bill Berry softening with albums like 'Up' and 'Reveal,' R.E.M. seems to be toughening up again; on the strength of the first single, 'Discoverer,' the band's new record looks to continue with the same muscular rock and roll that defined its last album, 'Accelerate.'
Karan Mahajan
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Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
Barbara Boxer
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The most flattering thing I hear is, 'I didn't think I liked country music before I heard your record.'
Sam Hunt
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My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.
Safra A. Catz
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
Abbey Lincoln
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Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
Said Nursi
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The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them.
Jacob Bronowski
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Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)
E. O. Wilson
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Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
Albert Camus
