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Quote by Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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They that deny a God destroy mans nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. – Francis Bacon

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God
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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Reading
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973

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Environment

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. – Euripides

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It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here? – Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy

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Environment

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day… – Orison Swett Marden

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Environment

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. – Tryon Edwards

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and theyd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! – Philip Pullman

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The Beatles, Paul, John, George and Ringo have done more for the fall of Communism than any other western institution. – Artemy Troitsky

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I love being one half of a romantic couple. – Julianna Margulies

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