Francis Bacon Quotes
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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The most difficult thing to do is drama.
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When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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I've always wanted to do a family movie.
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For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures
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I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.
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It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
