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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
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"The fact that we can describe the motions of the world using Newtonian mechanics tell us nothing about the world. The fact that we do, does tell us something about the world."

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Dan Brown Author
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"Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made."

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Denis Diderot Philosopher, Writer
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"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

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Claude Monet Painter
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"One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one."

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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
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"When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."

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Timothy Keller Pastor, Author
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"No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God’s often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that."

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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also."

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