Francis Bacon Quotes
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.
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I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
