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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
"You don't need people's opinion on a fact."
"I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact."
"After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time."
"Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph."
"At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess."
"We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully."
"The single fact of existing is already a true happiness."
"Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact."
"A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words."
"Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again."
"When I was at school you got an overall general education, on many things, even just basic facts."
"The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions."
"This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely tabulate, and is incapable of developing, the Analytical Engine can either tabulate or develope."
"I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead"
"An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you."
"He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way."
"The life of a non-Muslim to Muslim is worth as much as the life of a chicken is worth to you and me. We don't go around killing every chicken we see. In fact we keep them and feed them as long as they are useful to us. But we don't lose sleep when we have to slaughter them. So it is not that Muslims will necessarily go around massacring every non-Muslim. As long as these non-Muslims are useful to them, they are granted protection."
"Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history."
"The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one."
