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Quote by Francis Bacon
Mysteries are due to secrecy. - Francis Bacon

Mysteries are due to secrecy. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. – Francis Bacon

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Nature
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Francis Bacon
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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophy
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Francis Bacon
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Other Quotes from
Mystery
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone? – Bertolt Brecht

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Mystery

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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Mystery

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. – Rene Magritte

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Mystery

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. – Joseph Joubert

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Mystery

Random Quotes

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I dont get nervous for that. I just get excited. – Kevin James

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relationship

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Men
[T]he colored pencil. The day we received our first full box of assorted colors we felt grown-up, the passage from baby status to childhood was complete. The broken wax crayon stubbles were immediately thrown out to make way for the more elegant and “mature” pencils. – Bernard Aimé Poulin (b.1945), The Complete Colored Pencil Book, 2011

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Crayons & Colors

Well, Ive been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that theres no hope. – Thom Yorke

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Hope