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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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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power
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Generosity
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw

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Ideas

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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Ideas

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. – Milton Avery

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Ideas

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

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Ideas

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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. – Latin Proverb

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Conformity

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see. – Paul Klee

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Art

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot

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power

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. – Tadao Ando

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architecture