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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
Leaders and Leadership
Rabbi Ben Azai

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Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual]
Books - Reading
Richard Bach

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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Desire
Gaston Bachelard

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Man is an imagining being.
Imagination
Gaston Bachelard

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Success
Jim Backus

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A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.
Revenge
Francis Bacon

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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Questions
Francis Bacon

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity
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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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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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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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Professions and Professionals
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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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Fate
Francis Bacon

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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Fear
Francis Bacon

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Knowledge
Francis Bacon

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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Opposition
Francis Bacon

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Nature is commanded by obeying her.
Nature
Francis Bacon

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No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
Money
Francis Bacon

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Love
Francis Bacon

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Humankind
Francis Bacon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Adversity
Francis Bacon

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Training
Francis Bacon

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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Responsibility
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