Francis Bacon Quotes
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
Randy Hultgren
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
Becky Lynch
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden
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I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.
Vicky Hartzler
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I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
Zooey Deschanel
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
Edgar Ramirez
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a horrible system we had. How blind we were.
Hans Frank
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When prosperous the fool trembles for the evil that is to come; in adversity the philosopher smiles for the good that he has had.
Ambrose Bierce
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The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, 'No, I'm happy for you?' That's when it's really sad.
John Mayer
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.
Jason Alexander
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That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
Clotilde Hesme
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I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.
Joan Collins
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The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.
Donna Lynne Champlin
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
Safra A. Catz
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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon