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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Enjoyment
Richard Bach

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Travel and Tourism
Richard Bach

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The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.
Responsibility
Richard Bach

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Words
Burt Bacharach

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Children
Gaston Bachelard

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literature
Gaston Bachelard

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Progress
Gaston Bachelard

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The words of the world want to make sentences.
Words
Gaston Bachelard

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There is no original truth, only original error.
Mistakes
Gaston Bachelard

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All colors will agree in the dark.
Prejudice
Francis Bacon

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Anger
Francis Bacon

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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Uncategorised
Francis Bacon

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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
Atheism
Francis Bacon

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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Choice
Francis Bacon

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Consistency is the foundation of virtue.
Consistency
Francis Bacon

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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Doctors
Francis Bacon

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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Fate
Francis Bacon

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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
Gardening and Gardens
Francis Bacon

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Providence
Francis Bacon

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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Home
Francis Bacon

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Death and Dying
Francis Bacon

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Courtesy
Francis Bacon

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In charity there is no excess.
Charity
Francis Bacon

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Life and Living
Francis Bacon

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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Consistency
Francis Bacon

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun