The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. - Francis Bacon

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I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Francis Bacon

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Adversity, Conflict, Prosperity, Temperance, Virtue, War

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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.

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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.

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Jonny Greenwood

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

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Lincoln Steffens

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

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Simon Pegg

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

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Confucius

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

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Tara Stiles

When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity.

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