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"That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama."
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"I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened."
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"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."
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"And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same."
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"Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you."
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"The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you "know" about me is only what I allowed you to know about me."
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"Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram."
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"How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers."
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"I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability."
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"I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval."
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"To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century."
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"When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber."
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"No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling."
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"The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life."
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"And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me."
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"If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions."
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"Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect."
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