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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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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

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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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