It's a really big mistake to think democratization is a good tool to fight terrorism.
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I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernizati...
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We wanted our own magazine, ... I don't think they copyrighted the word 'Interest.'
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I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.
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It's easy to misunderstand and abuse the role of culture,
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The End of History.
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These aren't two separate problems. In many instances the responses are the same.
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There is no question,
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Money has to serve, not to rule.
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
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We all have the duty to do good.
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Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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FRANCIS PARKMAN
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
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Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
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There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
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FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
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One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
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Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
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We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
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To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS
For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
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States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON
All beliefs are bald ideas.
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
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FRANCIS ATTERBURY
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
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
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
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