Francis Bacon Quotes
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.
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I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell, or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.
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When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.
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In the years preceding my imprisonment, I worked as a software programmer, designing and developing web interfaces, secure databases, and communication software; later, I was employed as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army. Throughout each of these jobs, we used different kinds of encryption to keep prying eyes out of information we handled.
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I expect New Horizons will see more that Hubble cannot see.
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Out of the dragon's claws and into the fire, there's a moment in every man's life when he must decide what is wrong and what is right.
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Certainly, I don't think anybody here feels satisfied with our passing game or rushing game right now.
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I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
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As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
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Gardening?is one of the most underrated aspects of diplomacy.
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.
