Francis Bacon Quotes
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Quotes to Explore
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
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These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.
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I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
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Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
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The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.
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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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I was told by six doctors over six days that they could start me on full-body chemotherapy. And I said, "If you know where I'm coming from, I'd rather die."
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Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
