Agree Quote by Francis Bacon

“The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?”

Francis Bacon

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Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

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The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

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Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

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When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

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...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the…

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in…

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The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather…

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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity…

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Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

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Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

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It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

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I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

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On 9-11, we discovered that we cannot escape from the world. To me personally, this was a life-changing experience, and I realized, as did all Americans, in a way that is impossible to describe, that we were not protected by the two oceans. It was necessary to eliminate threats before they showed up on our doorstep. I agree that we…

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