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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. - Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. – Francis Bacon

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

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Adversity
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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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Books
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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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Thought
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Weve protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty theres no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. – Barack Obama

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When its time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough. – Jerry West

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Time

The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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I think Im finally growing up – and about time. – Elizabeth Taylor

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. – David Suzuki

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Keep smiling — it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to. – Author Unknown

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. – Oscar Wilde

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