Francis Bacon Quotes
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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As soon as I get in a rhythm, I'm very hard to stop.
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My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
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We stipulate about where we need to be in life: By this age you should be married, by this age you should have kids. But it's not that you can only do this or only do that. It's really about creating a holistic life: about planning ahead and being efficient with your time and really listening to yourself.
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That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.
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Nil terribile nisi ipse timor.
