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Images also help me find and ...

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Death is a friend of ours; an...

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Nay, number itself in armies ...

Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Again there is another great ...

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Human knowledge and human pow...

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The rising unto place is labo...

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

For the chain of causes canno...

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Suspicion amongst thoughts ar...

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

One of the fathers saith . . ...

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Men in great place are thrice...

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

If I go to the National Galle...

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Such is the way of all supers...

Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

It is not the lie that passet...

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

We must see whether the same ...

We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

But we may go further, and af...

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Whence we see spiders, flies,...

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

The human understanding when ...

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

He was reputed one of the wis...

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Life is a marshmallow, easy t...

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

First the amendment of their ...

First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

Francis Bacon 1062 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....