Francis Bacon Quotes
It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I love owning my masters.
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
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Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
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We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.
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Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
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It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
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It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
