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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they ca

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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Fame
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Francis Bacon
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophical
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop. – Marcello Mastroianni

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Ive always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. – Terry Pratchett

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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin

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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth. – Neville Chamberlain

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Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably wont any by the time… hes my age. Thats kinda hard to deal with. – Thom Yorke

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So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that its good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence. – Thierry Henry

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If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks thats pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if theyve been doing it for 40 years, thats bad news. – John Hawkes

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