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Quote by Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by st

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Francis Bacon

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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon

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In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. – Francis Bacon

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. – Andrew Carnegie

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas Everett

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No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development … That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination. – Colette Bowe

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Never step over one duty to perform another. – English Proverb

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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted. – Condoleezza Rice

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over – except when they are different. – Nancy Banks Smith

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