Francis Bacon Quotes

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
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If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.
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It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.
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In both quantum theory and general relativity, we encounter predictions of physically sensible quantities becoming infinite. This is likely the way that nature punishes impudent theorists who dare to break her unity. ...If infinities are signs of missing unification, a unified theory will have none. It will be what we call a finite theory.
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It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.