Francis Bacon Quotes
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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You cannot rely on other people's support.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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False praise is worse than no praise.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
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You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
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Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.
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Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I'm always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
