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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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Sam Graves
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We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
Mark Twain
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To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice, and the rays of the sun itself at levels of efficiency that will transform our relationship to our own planet Earth.
Rick Tumlinson
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God is directly perceived by the mind, but not by this ordinary mind. It is the pure mind that perceives God, and at that time this ordinary mind does not function. A mind that has the slightest trace of attachment to the world cannot be called pure. When all the impurities of the mind are removed, you may call that mind Pure Mind or Pure Ātman.
Ramakrishna
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When you suddenly become successful, the change is enormous, both financially and in terms of recognition and the way people treat you. I found that hard to deal with. I got very guilty about it, and I think I put up obstacles to prevent myself enjoying it.
James Nesbitt
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I think we realized what was at stake.
Joe Gibbs
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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
