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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When you change something like your hair, the whole world changes also.
Jillian Hervey
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Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
Earl Nightingale
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They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them
Kevin Martin
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When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong rush to the last page, the falling into a character's life, the deeper understanding we've gotten of a place or a time, or the feeling of reading words that are put together in a way that causes us to look at the world differently. We need to start thinking about what it is about a book that draws us in, rather than what the book is about.
Nancy Pearl
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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
