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Quote by Francis Bacon
For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to

For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. – Francis Bacon

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

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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. – Hubert Humphrey

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. – Aleister Crowley

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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. – John Milton

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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right….Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. – John F. Kennedy

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While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. – Eric Alterman

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Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves. – Maximilien Robespierre

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The spotlight will always be on me, but its something Im learning to live with as the years go by. – David Beckham

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