Francis Bacon Quotes
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl Abraham
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
Macaulay Culkin
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
Gary Bauer
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
David Grossman
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo
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Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
John Burns
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon