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Francis Bacon quote: "We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what..."

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

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Then come at once and pause for breath. In chasing wealth. Remembering death. And death's dark fires, mix, while you may, Method and madness, work and play. Folly is sweet, well-timed. Horace
What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium,... John Berger
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Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them. Tom Tancredo