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Quote by Francis Bacon
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. – Francis Bacon

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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. – Noam Chomsky

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I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. – John Cleese

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts

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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

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People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise. – Evander Holyfield

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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot

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