We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. - Francis Bacon

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Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

Francis Bacon

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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Julian Schnabel

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

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Nhat Hanh

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

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Gunter Pauli

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

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Brett Lee

I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

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Mignon McLaughlin

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

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