I can't psychoanalyze why (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein does what he does, but I can tell you this, ... It's smart for him to stop attacking our planes because he was losing a lot of equipment. He was losing radars. He was losing missiles. And he was losing air defense guns. And he was losing command and control facilities. So, if he wants to hold on to his equipment, he should stop attacking the patrols.


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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the b...
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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.
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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.
FRANCIS BACON
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and t...
FRANCIS BACON
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
FRANCIS BACON
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
FRANCIS BACON
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more...
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ...
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...
FRANCIS BACON
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet ...
FRANCIS BACON
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
FRANCIS BACON
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and...
FRANCIS BACON
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
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Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
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For knowledge itself is power.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
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