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Quote by Francis Bacon
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not w

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

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Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. – Aristotle

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

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Fear

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. – Herb Kelleher

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Fear

I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story… – Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, 2012

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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

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Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. – Elissa Melamed

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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports. – Willie Mays

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