Francis Bacon Quotes
…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
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The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.
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I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
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It's brilliant having loads of girls running after you. It's also a shock when you realise just how much attention you're getting. Eventually, you start to think, 'I'd rather settle down and be normal.'
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…it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives…
