Francis Bacon Quotes
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
