Francis Bacon Quotes
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
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I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
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I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that.
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I like to look at things that have been developed and re-developed over the course of time so I know the bugs are worked out of it. And in the business itself, I like to look at sales, by far. I want to see that there is a vetted track record of sales to show the price point has worked.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.
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When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
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The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
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For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
