Francis Bacon Quotes

All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

Francis Bacon

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• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

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• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

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• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  

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• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  

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• I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

  

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• I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth.

  

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• We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.

  

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• America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

  

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• I've come to trust not that events will always unfold exactly as I want, but that I will be fine either way. The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.

  

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• Much effort, much prosperity.

  

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• The eyes showed the soul and they were always hardest to mask.

  

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• A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

  

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• Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

  

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• All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Judgment
  • Believers
  • Astrology