Francis Bacon Quotes
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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Jon Hamm is such an amazing co-star. He used to set the tune of the scenes so easily, and in his free time, he didn't mind giving us cues. We picked up a lot from him.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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Few people know how to be old.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Suffering. That was the key.
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He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.
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Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
