#to

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#directions #except #experience #forth #give

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

#christianity #history #jesus-myth #death

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#bump #business #call #day #get

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#keep #secrets #some #sometimes #want

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#chinese #cox #designs #four #good

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#act #any #be prepared #emergency #himself

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. ↗

— Steve Winwood

#bought #car #dreams #high #just

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#everything #important #much #must #too

Stores can be much more successful, when they have more lifestyle products. ↗

— Mark Badgley

#more #much #products #stores #successful