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If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet.


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FRANCIS BACON For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly a...
FRANCIS BACON None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
FRANCIS BACON God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...
FRANCIS BACON It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha...
FRANCIS BACON As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the b...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
FRANCIS BACON Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
FRANCIS BACON Opportunity makes a thief.
FRANCIS BACON Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners an...
FRANCIS BACON The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
FRANCIS BACON Nature is commanded by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature...
FRANCIS BACON The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
FRANCIS BACON Mysteries are due to secrecy.
FRANCIS BACON Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n...
FRANCIS BACON In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to b...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACON Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
FRANCIS BACON There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Cure the disease and kill the patient.
FRANCIS BACON Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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