Francis Bacon Quotes
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
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Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.
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It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
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I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
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The truth is, as you know, people like us look at what's happening in the world, and then we project it forward. We think, 'If I know A and B, then I've got to know that C and D are coming,' and that's kind of the way it's been with my fiction.
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I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.
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All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
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It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
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Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.
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Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy.
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Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
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And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf his present repute for the freedom to think,And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.
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Questions for President Obama: A Town Hall Special with Gwen Ifill, PBS NewsHour (1 June 2016)
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Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.
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I don't want an opportunity to go missing because of my lack of organization.
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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'
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Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
