States, as great engines, move slowly. - Francis Bacon - Quotesmemo.com

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Francis Bacon

States, as great engines, move slowly.

Engines, Government, Move, Moving, States

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Discolors, Distorts, Humility, Mirrors, Nature, Objectivity

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Alter, Change, Life, Philosophical, Spontaneously, Worse

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Everybody, Fate, Man, Men, Well Known

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Entrepreneur, Fearing, Halloween, Limit, Political, Suffering

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Actors are a really funny bunch of people, especially the X-Men cast. They're super funny and super nice, and they like to go out and get drinks and dinner and hang out. It's an experience. It's a summer. It's like camp. Everybody gets together and hangs out.

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Don Winslow

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American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are generalisations; you can't make generalisations about hundreds of thousands of people. The New York Police Department, for instance, has 38,000 police officers in it. But most cops, when I talk to them, desperately care about the victims of gun violence. They see it, they experience it.

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I just try not to judge. Dont judge me, and I wont judge you.

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I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.

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Andrea Dworkin

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On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

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