Francis Bacon Quotes
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Quotes to Explore
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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My hunger is always there.
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.
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Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot?" As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.
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For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.
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Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.
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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
