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When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year. Herb Sendek
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I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out. Laura Carmichael
brilliant chairman great mitchell pounds raised sure thousands tom
Tom was a brilliant chairman who raised thousands of pounds for the association and I am sure Mitchell will also do a great job. Ken Lynch
brilliant great half pressed reward second
What a great performance. We got a brilliant start. In the second half we pressed them and they didn't like it. We got our reward in the end. John Terry
brilliant buy geared great guys hard might reason system tried understand whatever win work
With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn't work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a system they understand and buy into. We've got guys who might not be great defenders, but they work hard at that end. Now, we're more geared to play defense. Mark Cuban
brilliant creativity either pressure produce quite short sure time turn
We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting. Eric Kanagy
brilliant character comedians kinds physical richard styles
There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once. Damon Wayans
brilliant volume
Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume. Alexandra Roach
brilliant gotten lucy money production terribly
Lucy-my God, Lucy was a brilliant, brilliant clown, but she was terribly miscast. But we would have never gotten the money for the production if she hadn't wanted to do it. Beatrice Arthur
coming example money send though
We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses. Richard McGrath
coming good people photo saying
Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think. Luke Pasqualino
coming concept great home leaves picked room sports understand
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home. Michael Strahan
coming emotional love motivation stories true understand until
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end. M. Night Shyamalan
coming crash drive earnings economy fact market nice numbers ought quarter second sentiment slowing sold stable terrific third
The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter. Michael Farr
coming housing negative numbers oil positive today worse
The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected. James Awad
coming face move point society time turn
The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future. Mark Potok
coming defensive line pleasant practice question surprise
The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively. Terry Borr
coming seeing side
We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes. Carly Rager
cookies fortune
Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie. Dave Barry
cookie dad hope
To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me. Lucas Neff
cookies fruit lucky
I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than cookies. Carrie Ann Inaba
cookies jars cry
Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know! Charles M. Schulz
cookie fruit pursue
We are not going to pursue the cookie or the fruit this year. Sen. DeFronzo
cookies cream except inside love sandwich
At my school, they have an ice cream special sometimes, and they have this ice cream sandwich, except the sandwich part is like an Oreo and the inside like cookies n' cream ice cream. I love that. Lilla Crawford
cookies dozen pay willing
We?re not there yet. But ... what kind of cookies do you like, and are you willing to pay $10 a dozen for them? Rod Brobeck
cookies cut cutting deciding eat federal
To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts. Timothy Noah
cookie life responsibility status
I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way. Sara Ramirez
creative aspect difficult
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point. Chogyam Trungpa
creative mind unlimited
When the creative mind is unleashed and understands its true nature, it's unlimited. There's nothing you cannot do. Byron Katie
creative sides business-sense
I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense. Catherine Bell
creative criticism spirit
Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing. Camille Paglia
creative reason-why reason
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong Casey Neistat
creatively pleased project receive recognized regional urban wonderful worked
We are pleased to receive the Project Partnership Award. As an organization we have worked creatively with regional communities to get urban forestry off the ground. It's wonderful to be formally recognized for these efforts. Mike Gardner
creative evolution giraffe
Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes. Kurt Vonnegut
creative challenges destruction
Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction. Charles Koch
creative done want
I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative. Bob Monkhouse
customers focus
We want them to focus on customers and business, but they have to go to London. David Berkowitz
customers further peace proactive step
We want to take a much more proactive step and give our customers further peace of mind. Sanjay Gupta
customer emphasis greater needs service spirit
We want to substantially put greater emphasis on customer service and customer satisfaction. We really want to revitalize the spirit of the organization. It needs to be a much greater competitor. Robert Johnston
customers employees excited lots potential received reception warm
We've already received such a warm reception from customers in Michigan. Just as we have customers who are excited about Ikea, we have lots of potential employees who are excited as well. Joseph Roth
customers employees full lost missed service
We're in full operation. We have not missed any service to our customers and our employees have not lost any time, Cindy Adams
customer financial gave marks pcs service spoke system top
We spoke with more than 50 financial institutions and each of them gave PCS top marks for customer service, conversions and system capabilities. Jerry Rogers
customers tough
Where there's a tough call, we do what our customers would want us to do. Carly Fiorina
customers talk
When you talk to customers, you can tell that a lot of them are a lot more local. Alex Jones
customer dream reached reaching rewarded talk wants
When you talk about what is Lincoln, it's about reaching the American customer who has reached his goals, reached his dream and wants to be rewarded for that. Anne Stevens
finance people shows
The people who don't know personal finance have TV shows about it. James Altucher
finance government management seen state
We have seen a recklessness in the management of state government and finance that has been unprecedented. Stephen Forrest
finance people yahoo
Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that. Jerry Yang
financed matters past
Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
finances office ran volleyball
She practically ran all the finances for my volleyball camps. She's so meticulous. ... She can't come into my office without straightening things up. Jody Brown
finance hatch running senate states united
Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee. Scott Howell
finances somebody success
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success. Clint Eastwood
finance grateful law
How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance. Gordon B. Hinckley
finance studied technology university
I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. Brenton Thwaites
girls lose outcome rather tend
The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one. Bruce Marthaller
girls
There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am. Marcia Gay Harden
girls jelly life shoes understand
I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular. Hayley Orrantia
girls last nervous playing rather relax thinking win
We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing. Ron Reichle
girls punishment running school season watching worked worse
We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning. Lauren Pittman
girls knew step stop
We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up. John Franceschi
girls half life models
There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous. Lisanne Falk
girls midway season starting work
We're midway through the season now and I think the girls are starting to progress. We've got a lot more work to do, but I think that we're going in the right direction. Dave Hohenthal
girls minimize number post throw
We're going to throw a number of girls on her. You have to post up on the elbow, not down on the block. If we can minimize her and their 3-point shooters, we have shot. Mike Turnan
goal achievement want
Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set. Charles Stanley
goal coward
Courage is the goal of cowards. Alan Watts
goal missing world
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world. Alan Watts
goal goal-oriented
I'm very goal oriented. David Schwimmer
goal people achievement
Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals. David Rusenko
goal climate-change stewards
The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope. David R. Brower
goal vision feminism
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist. Camille Paglia
goal capable
Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored. Bryan Robson
goal score
Without a goal, you can’t score. Casey Neistat
helping-someone achievement saving
Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible. Charles Stanley
helping conservation protect
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. Alan Clark
help understand
We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can, Mike Harris
help organize
We want to see how we can help organize the transfer. Javier Solana
helping-others names way
Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent. Chogyam Trungpa
helping conspiracy crime
Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. David Shuster
helping-someone stories sometimes
I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes. David Schwimmer
helping ability
All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act. David Koechner
helping help-me help-yourself
Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t. Dave Barry
ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Charles Dickens
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe. Alan Watts
ideas stink masters
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. Alan Watts
ideas matter certain
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed. Alan Perlis
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Alan Perlis
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan Perlis
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate. Bruce Barber
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become. Wissam Nasr
life strong truth
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens
life saying-goodbye expectations
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens
life autism world
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in. Charles Dickens
life moral existence
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Charles Dickens
life littles
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. Charles Dickens
life people astonishing
It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. Charles Caleb Colton
life soul prison
Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. Charles Caleb Colton
life happiness dark
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see. Charles Caleb Colton
life distance journey
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. Charles Caleb Colton
marketing phrases idiot
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. Alan Moore
marketing advertising timing
Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills. Al Ries
marketing company ultimate
Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective. Al Ries
marketing mind building
Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect. Al Ries
marketing cows looks
A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike. Al Ries
marketing world needs
All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing. Akio Morita
marketing advertising products
Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. Edwin Land
marketing coaching good-coaches
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching. Bernard Ebbers
marketing treasure reputation
The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation. William Shakespeare
planning chill daydreaming
Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming. David Morrissey
planning spontaneous be-spontaneous
You must plan to be spontaneous. David Hockney
planning
Success is the residue of planning. Benjamin Franklin
planning asks
We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. Abraham Lincoln
planning wait
The planning is complicated. ... But we can't wait any longer. Dorothy Teeter
planning ifs
If you can visualize it, you can actualize it. Dennis Conner
planning played role
Sebastian played a big role in our planning for the World Cup. Juergen Klinsmann
planning products wild
We are planning some more wild products in 2006. Edward Zander
planning thanksgiving
We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington, Patrick Leahy
public-trust
I have never, not once, violated my public trust. Alan Mollohan
public
Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice.... S. Hughes
publicity enough good-enough
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. David Duchovny
publicity
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. Carl Andre
public-opinion found ministers
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
public
When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else. Robert Reich
public
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do. Robert Reich
public
My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up. Sharon Stone
publicity obituary
There's no bad publicity except an obituary. Brendan Behan
sales special
When we have a special event, our sales triple, Peter Reynolds
sale
We feel that (the $30 came) from the sale of marijuana. Paul Bishop
salespeople resolve
Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales. Brian Tracy
sale
Where did you get that? ... Is it on sale already? Ricky Gervais
sale sought wood
Barns are for sale on the Internet. The wood is sought after now. Lu Donnelly
sale
So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. George Stephen
sale youth
His sale to Watford is another filip for the youth set-up. Keith Alexander
sales
Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked. Jon Hanson
sales season stretch ticket
There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever. Tom McMillan
scouting section state win
When I look at Section 3's preseason scouting report, it's as if Henninger doesn't go 13-0 and win a state championship, it'll be pretty much a down year, Golden Bears
scouts team youth
We need as many youth team scouts as possible. Iain Dowie
scout understood
I was able to scout them and we understood what they were doing. Tim Dougherty
scouts trust
You just have to trust your scouts in that regard. Phil Garner
scouts talking
He's the one all the scouts want to see right now. Everyone is talking about this guy. Michael Wilbon
scouts
There must have been 40 to 45 scouts there. It was amazing. Ron Fussell
scout teams
I don't know how that happens. Other teams will scout us and they'll try to take something away and we'll have an answer. Lara Gray
scouting
They did it all the way up and down the lineup. That's what was different from the scouting reports. Phil Garner
scouts
The more scouts that are here, the better he pitches. Tony Rasmus
sells
Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. Dennis Miller
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers
sell series
We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital. Craig Parsons
selling soon supplies
We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them, Brian Lucas
selling-more goal priorities
Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities. Don Cooper
selling encyclopedia right-now
Elvis is my religion. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. Bruce Springsteen
sells
Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop. Benjamin Graham
sell
Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did. Chrissie Hynde
selling
It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones. Erin O'Connor
skills honey taste
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
skills generations novelists
We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
skills perception taoism
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
skills age lucky
And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
skills cards world
I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
skills judging-yourself luck
Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Carl Icahn
skills class looks
You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Billy Joe Saunders
skills mind soil
In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Edward Gibbon
skills energy kind
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. David Hockney
succeed endeavor assurance
In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. Akhenaton
succeed flexible
Those who are flexible in thought, will inevitably succeed. David Cunliffe
succeed way products
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product. Barry Diller
succeed revolution
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds! August Strindberg
succeed able knows
To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on. Denise McCluggage
succeed want our-family
You want everyone to succeed in your family. Elizabeth Olsen
succeed
Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed. Barbara Taylor Bradford
succeed failing prerequisites
Failure is an absolute prerequisite for success. You learn to succeed by failing. Brian Tracy
succeed firsts ifs
If at first you don't succeed, C4 Jamie Hyneman
theme fascinated
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by. Alan Ball
theme tonight
Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal. John Kearns
theme type relaxed
The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed. Deepak Chopra
theme
Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market. Meg Browne
theme again-and-again
Themes recur again and again in my work. Eve Arnold
theme fraud felt
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. Moby
theme painter sculptors
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. Michael Heizer
theme repetition autobiography
The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition. Mason Cooley
theme novel great-novels
They say great themes make great novels John O'Hara
variety whatever
We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in. Matt Cookson
variety
There is just such a variety of things to see and do here. Jennifer Smith
variety
Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished. Jorge Camejo
variety wear
We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do. Nick Larson
variety
Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things. Tom Johnson
variety wide
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations. Randall Kennedy
variety wide
We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks. Joe Perring
variety year
This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals. David Liu
variety-is-the-spice-of-life pleasant variety
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. Francis Bacon