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Quote by Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul t

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. – Francis Bacon

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Fame
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Francis Bacon
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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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Francis Bacon
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesnt make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. – Gertrude Stein

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Art

Sometimes for an artist the only difference between insanity and genius is success. – Edward Allen Bernero, Criminal Minds, “True Night” (season3, episode10), origina

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Art

I dont think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque. – Christina Aguilera

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Art

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. – Auguste Rodin

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Art

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. – Sir Winston Churchill

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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves. – Marshall McLuhan

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Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had. – Jimmy Connors

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