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Quote by Francis Bacon
This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, b

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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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. – Victor Hugo

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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources. – Yvon Chouinard

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