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…
Francis Bacon
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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.
Zeljko Ivanek
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
F. H. Bradley
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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.
W. H. Davies
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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.
Wayne Huizenga
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
Sam Kean
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman
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The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'
Marjorie Gubelmann
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If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.
Jason Kander
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We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].
Barack Obama
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
e. e. cummings
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Enchanted partnership begins with the conscious understanding, on the part of two people, that the purpose of their relationship is not so much material as spiritual, and the internal skills demanded by it are prodigious.
Marianne Williamson
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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…
Francis Bacon
