Francis Bacon Quotes
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.
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People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
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Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.
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I'm the kid of baby boomers, and the baby boomers listened to rock-and-roll, not thinking that Sinatra and Bennett were cool. I discovered this music on my own, which is why I really adopted it as my own music.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
