He's a wily fellow, and that's why we'll continue to fly with great care and continue to devote a portion of our assets to dealing with his integrated air defense system.


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FRANCIS BACON
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON
I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON
Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON
For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
FRANCIS BACON
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
FRANCIS BACON
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
FRANCIS BACON
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent...
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, ...
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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize...
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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
FRANCIS BACON
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
FRANCIS BACON
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACON
In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl...
FRANCIS BACON
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
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