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Quote by Francis Bacon
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more p

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. – Francis Bacon

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Doubt
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. – Francis Bacon

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good
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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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Age
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn

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An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. – Richard Bach

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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

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So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. – Dorothea Brande

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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossing with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we dont begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. – Robert. L. Ehrlich

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