Francis Bacon Quotes
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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I hate my name. It's a stupid, horrible name.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
