Francis Bacon Quotes

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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The art of life is to show your hand.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
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I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very fortunate and understand how fortunate I am.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.
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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy.
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Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard.
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The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
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Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
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God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.
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Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
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The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
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We've talked before what is important is week in, week out, getting wins and getting better.
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The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.
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It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.