There are obviously things that can lead to accidents... . The likelihood that you can have things lead to two accidents ... at the same time ... that's a pretty heavy coincidence.


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Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Science is but an image of the truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
FRANCIS BACON
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON