Francis Bacon Quotes
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Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.
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We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got disrupted, so it just seemed like a natural progression that video was next. We thought we were late to the game in 2003.
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What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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Love is the prize in life.
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It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.
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I want to give my respect, glory and time to the Bible - to the word of God - just as I want to give my respect and time to my work.
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Workers in government, the arts, and industry report that the sheer volume of email they receive is overwhelming, taking a huge bite out of their day. We feel obliged to answer our emails, but it seems impossible to do so and get anything else done.
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About once a year, I do these long-distance relays with some friends of mine, and it takes about 27 or 28 hours to complete it.
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Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.
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A lot of French comedy is satire.
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Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?'
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Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of “reconciliation” between the sections, “material reconstruction” of the South, and a way of restoring “mutual respect and affection” at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.
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The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.
