Francis Bacon Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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I tell my micro students everything I teach them is important, but the truth is that some things are more useful than others, and opportunity cost is near the top.
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
