The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Francis Bacon
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  1. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! - Allan Rufus

  2. Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself! - Mark A. Cooper

  3. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. - Unknown

  4. My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. - Joseph Conrad

  5. The menu is not the meal. - Alan W. Watts

More Quotes By Francis Bacon
  1. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  2. Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

  3. The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

  4. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  5. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore...

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