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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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.
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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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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I think clothes are very much a representation of your attitude and the way you feel. I really love to be dressed down, though.
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Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
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Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
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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…
